On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:34:29 UTC in comp.os.os2.apps, Number One
wrote:

> The boot process started correctly from the flash drive (as it normally
> would from the "DISK 0" diskette), but it stops at the prompt:
>
> "Insert OS/2 Diskette 1 into Drive A: Then press Enter."
>
> If I press Enter at that point nothing happens.
> I tried labelling the flash drive "DISK 1", but it's not helping.
>
> Anyone knows a workaround this problem?

If the kernel is called os2krnli then it expects to be booted from a floppy and
wants to prompt for a change of disk. If it's called os2krnl then it thinks it's
booting from a hard disk and will not prompt.

--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com

Number One wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm experimenting with booting my PC from an USB flash drive.
>
> My system's BIOS supports it, and I successfully booted a DOS system
> from the flash drive.
>
> Upon completion of the boot process, the (FAT formatted) flash drive
> appears as a "big floppy drive" (A: drive with 512MB of disk space!).
>

I am trying to do this on my new mother board, without success.
How do you do it?

TIA


K. Melland
Norway

I'm using an Intel D865PERL MB, which is over 3 years old.

I did following setup changes to boot from USB flash drive:

Advanced -> USB Configuration -> Legacy USB Support -> Enabled
Boot -> USB Boot -> Enabled

PS: to transfer DOS system to flash drive, I found a free utility from
HP. Search for "HP Drive Key Boot Utility". It works with many brands of
flash drives.

Latest link:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/fi...oad/23839.html

K. Melland wrote:
> Number One wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm experimenting with booting my PC from an USB flash drive.
>>
>> My system's BIOS supports it, and I successfully booted a DOS system
>> from the flash drive.
>>
>> Upon completion of the boot process, the (FAT formatted) flash drive
>> appears as a "big floppy drive" (A: drive with 512MB of disk space!).
>>
>
> I am trying to do this on my new mother board, without success.
> How do you do it?
>
> TIA
>
>
> K. Melland
> Norway
>

Trevor,

Thanks for interesting info about OS2KRNLI file.

I renamed it to OS2KRNL and tried booting again from flash drive.

The boot process starts, without prompting to insert floppies, and it
ends with:

"OS/2 is unable to operate your hard disk or diskette drive..."

I also entered recovery menu (at beginning of boot process) and selected
"boot to command prompt" (which is what I want to do), but it ends the
same way.

So that's still a NO-GO!


Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:34:29 UTC in comp.os.os2.apps, Number One
> wrote:
>
>> The boot process started correctly from the flash drive (as it normally
>> would from the "DISK 0" diskette), but it stops at the prompt:
>>
>> "Insert OS/2 Diskette 1 into Drive A: Then press Enter."
>>
>> If I press Enter at that point nothing happens.
>> I tried labelling the flash drive "DISK 1", but it's not helping.
>>
>> Anyone knows a workaround this problem?
>
> If the kernel is called os2krnli then it expects to be booted from a floppy and
> wants to prompt for a change of disk. If it's called os2krnl then it thinks it's
> booting from a hard disk and will not prompt.
>

In <4593d07c$0$20386$88260bb3@news.teranews.com>, on 12/28/2006
at 09:19 AM, Number One said:

Hi,

>The boot process starts, without prompting to insert floppies, and it
>ends with:

>"OS/2 is unable to operate your hard disk or diskette drive..."

FWIW, several have tried what you are attempting, and TTBOMK, no one has
yet succeeded.

Part of the final solution will be using the /I13 usbd.sys parameter. See
the USB Basic readme.

Another part will likely be forcing the flash drive to be treated as not
removable.

Regards,

Steven

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There may be an option within the BIOS that says "Allow External Boot" or
words to that effect. This option needs to be enabled.

> I am trying to do this on my new mother board, without success.
> How do you do it?
>
> TIA
>
>
> K. Melland
> Norway
>

Number One wrote:
>
> PS: to transfer DOS system to flash drive, I found a free utility from
> HP. Search for "HP Drive Key Boot Utility". It works with many brands of
> flash drives.
>
> Latest link:
> http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/fi...oad/23839.html
>

Hi #1

Thanks!
This worked, but when booting from the stick (slow), some kind of Linux
is running.
I am too old to get it and go further. The idea was to flash BIOS from
the stick.

Is there just something simple that evades me?

K. Melland
Norway

Hello "K",

I checked again and it turns out I didn't post the correct link to the
HP program that I used:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/fi...oad/20306.html

(Windows-based Format Utility for HP Drive Key or DiskOnKey USB Device
version 2.00.006 A (6 Feb 04))

It's a 2MB utility that will format the USB flash drive, and transfer
system files from a bootable floppy that you supply.

K. Melland wrote:
> Number One wrote:
>> PS: to transfer DOS system to flash drive, I found a free utility from
>> HP. Search for "HP Drive Key Boot Utility". It works with many brands of
>> flash drives.
>>
>> Latest link:
>> http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/fi...oad/23839.html
>>
>
> Hi #1
>
> Thanks!
> This worked, but when booting from the stick (slow), some kind of Linux
> is running.
> I am too old to get it and go further. The idea was to flash BIOS from
> the stick.
>
> Is there just something simple that evades me?
>
> K. Melland
> Norway
>

Number One wrote:
> Hello "K",
>
> I checked again and it turns out I didn't post the correct link to the
> HP program that I used:
>
> http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/fi...oad/20306.html
>
> (Windows-based Format Utility for HP Drive Key or DiskOnKey USB Device
> version 2.00.006 A (6 Feb 04))
>
> It's a 2MB utility that will format the USB flash drive, and transfer
> system files from a bootable floppy that you supply.
>

OK, Thank you Number One!

'twas the floppy that really evadet me. I think I have a drive in some
box. Then is it good enough to right click on A: in XP and hopefully
just tick FAT and 'system' or similar in the format box?

Thanks again!

Kolbjorn

Number One schrieb:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm experimenting with booting my PC from an USB flash drive.
>
Hallo,

Mike Luther reported success by booting a system from external USB
drive in Thread

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....a7689a89649d5d

I have done quite an extensive research and testing on the problem.

I have not been able up till now to reproduce the booting the way Mike
do it.

I have not recreated exactly the test case.

I have reproduced the booting from USB floppy and learned a lot about
the procedure.


What is special at Mikes successful configuration?

1. It is a single system on C: without the use of the boot manager

2. The PRM media is created by cloning the internal drive to the USB HDD

3. There is no boot manager on any on the HDD s on the system


The problem is to pass the boot drive letter during the boot process
from the Partitioned Removable Media.

Boot Manager does not support PRM.

How to supply a boot drive letter by booting from PRM.

Well, Danidasd.dmd does have an option for the boot drive.

There are some restrictions of danidasd:

1. Danidasd does not support the LVM info on the HDD.

2. The drive letter for the PRM is assigned by the "old" drive letter
assignment method:

first assign a drive letter to all the "fixed" partitions (drives)
and than to the "removable" partitions (drive)

the drive letter assigned to the PRM drive is depended form the
layout of the HDD of the
system to boot

The following system / config.sys on CF Card boots from USB card
reader on my T23 system

It is on a FAT file system to keep it simple :-)

================================================== ===========================
rem
rem config.sys without drive letter C: in statements with some
execptions !!


EARLYMEMINIT=TRUE
PRIORITY_DISK_IO=NO

pauseonerror=YES

rem SET SAVECONNECT=1
rem SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1

LIBPATH=.;\OS2\DLL;
SET PATH=\OS2;
SET DPATH=\OS2;
SET LANG=de_DE
SET ULSPATH=\language
DEVICE=\OS2\unicode.sys

rem IFS=C:\OS2\cdfs.ifs /Q /W
rem IFS=\OS2\hpfs.ifs /CACHE:1024 /AUTOCHECK:*
rem IFS=C:\OS2\udf.ifs /V

BASEDEV=ibmkbd.sys
BASEDEV=chkdsk.sys

rem ==========USB

BASEDEV=USBD.SYS /V /I13

BASEDEV=usbuhcd.sys
BASEDEV=usbuhcd.sys
BASEDEV=usbuhcd.sys

BASEDEV=usbhid.sys

BASEDEV=usbmsd.add /V

rem ==== usb ende

rem BASEDEV=ibm1flpy.add /A:0 /FORCE:2 /U:0 /F:1.44MB /U:1 /F:1.44MB

basedev=ibm1s506.add /W
basedev=ibmatapi.flt
basedev=IBMIDECD.FLT

rem str basedev=ibmatapi.flt /A:1 /U:0 /TYPES:CLZ /V

rem str BASEDEV=danis506.add /W
rem str BASEDEV=danis506.add /VLL /A:1 /BAY
rem str BASEDEV=daniatap.flt /V /A:1 /U:0 /TYPE:W


rem BASEDEV=os2dasd.dmd
rem BASEDEV=os2lvm.dmd

BASEDEV=DANIDASD.DMD /BD:F /MT:Ae,Ah,Ao

rem str COUNTRY=049,C:\OS2\country.sys

COUNTRY=049,\OS2\country.sys
CODEPAGE=850
DEVINFO=KBD,GR,\OS2\keyboard.dcp
DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,\OS2\viotbl.dcp

rem DEVICE=C:\OS2\os2cdrom.dmd
rem BASEDEV=os2aspi.dmd /ALL

DEVICE=\OS2\testcfg.sys
DEVICE=\OS2\dos.sys
DEVICE=\OS2\pointdd.sys
DEVICE=\OS2\mouse.sys

rem str DEVICE=C:\OS2\com.sys

rem BASEDEV=print01.sys /IRQ
rem PRINTMONBUFSIZE=134,134,134

rem str DEVICE=C:\OS2\apm.sys
rem str RUN=C:\OS2\apmdaemn.exe

SET TEMP=\Temp
SET TMP=\Temp

SUPPRESSPOPUPS=C
MEMMAN=SWAP,PROTECT
SWAPPATH=f:\OS2\ 512
IOPL=YES
PROTECTONLY=NO
AUTOFAIL=YES
THREADS=1024
DISKCACHE=D,LW,AC:+F
MAXWAIT=1
SET VIDEO_DEVICES=VIO_VGA
SET VIO_VGA=DEVICE(BVHVGA)
SET TZ=CET-1CES,3,-1,0,7200,10,-1,0,10800,3600
SET PROMPT=$i[$p]
SET KEYS=ON
PROTSHELL=\OS2\cmd.exe
SET OS2_SHELL=\OS2\cmd.exe
SET COMSPEC=\OS2\cmd.exe


========= end config.sys for booting from usb PRM to the command prompt

Currently I am testing to boot from PRM / USB disk with support of
AIRBOOT Version 1.5
on the PRM.

By booting from the PRM via USB the AIRBOOT menu comes up and offer the
system on the PRM to boot.

The version with the DANIDASD boot to the command prompt!!!!


Versions with:

BASEDEV=os2dasd.dmd
BASEDEV=os2lvm.dmd

and boot drive letter assignment by airboot are currently tested.

No succes to report - jet :-)

===> *"OS/2 is unable to operate your hard disk or diskette drive"*


Based on the danidasd we have a prove of concept for the booting form
USB PRM.

kind regards

Rainer