[SATLUG] Bootable USB thumb drive

[Don Wright]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:20:06 -0500, Gordon Carrasco <gjcarrasco at gmail.com>
wrote:

>I am trying to make a USB Thumb Drive (Viking Interworks 32MB USB
>Drive) that I can use to flash a BIOS.  Only catch is that booting
>from a USB drive is not an option on these older boards ( Asus A7V600
>and a Tyan S2462 (K7X) ).


I'd suspect that BIOS flash or rescue procedure is going to be floppy drive
only, unless you can get a Windows session running. The ones I've seen
lately either run from Windows or create a bootable floppy from an image
file.

I gather your system has neither. Can you add a 3.5 floppy drive
temporarily? Reminder, the computer show is coming this weekend.
www.pcshows.com

Here's why: The interface for floppy has been standardized since the PC/AT
came out, while USB has multiple chipsets and options. A BIOS developer can
either write one floppy flash procedure or support dozens of USB variations.
Which do you think will happen?  --Don

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