booting from HIMD

[garcou]

hey 1kyle, you seem to be around these days.

some months ago you said you actually boot from himd and installed linux application on it.

I tried unsuccessfully to add boot sectors on himd as you told using nero, as I find "make a bootable CD" but no "make an bootable USB disc" in nero.

could you give more explanations?

Thank you in advance.

Edited February 18, 2006 by garcou

[1kyle]

hey 1kyle, you seem to be around these days.

some months ago you said you actually boot from himd and installed linux application on it.

I tried unsuccessfully to add boot sectors on himd as you told using nero, as I find "make a bootable CD" but no "make an bootable USB disc" in nero.

could you give more explanations?

Thank you in advance.

Your computer needs to be able to boot from a USB device via the BIOS --Your MD will appear just as a bog standard device like a Card reader or a USB stick.

Set the USB option as a boot option in your computer's BIOS (Your computer will have a setup screen at boot time) --press the relevant keys for your machine when booting.

If you can't set the computer to boot from a USB device then it won't work I'm afraid -- however nearly all Intel (PC) type machines made within the last 18 months to 2 years should have a USB boot option.

You create the Bootable disk as a BOOTABLE CD in NERO with these options : NO EMULATION and NUMBER OF SECTORS set to 4 --don't try and use a "Floppy Boot image". Don't use the standard NERO boot disk creation options or it won't work.

You have to use a "CD Image" --even if you are making a bootable DVD --works fine.

For more info on creating bootable disks and running Windows from CD's etc you'll get a whole pethora of information from this site

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder

together with this one (Read BOTH sites)

http://xpe.collewijn.info/index.php

Warning --this stuff is addictive so don't start if you have something else to do once you've begun.

I've given the Windows info as there's plenty of info on how to create the boot disks -- once you've understood the mechanics of Boot Disk creation you should then be able to create your own bootable disk with your Linux distro / app on it.

Note that MD only boots at USB 1.1 speed not USB 2.0 so it's not a terribly fast booting method -- also your computer needs to have a decent amount of RAM in it or it will page like crazy --remember the whole OS is running from the MD.

Finally some more articles for you

http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php

Cheers

-K

Edited February 19, 2006 by 1kyle