Hi all,

I am just sitting on my Gericom Notebook Blockbuster 2440 XL, where normal
USB boot via its Bios does not work.
Now I am writing what I do, to succeed there with USB boot. Even if your
Bios supports booting from USB, this new method from s4e to fake the MBR
Signature will work there. It can also be used for firewire devices (or
any device with a MBR) and USB sticks. It works also, if your compi has
nothing heard in his long live about USB in his Bios, or has no USB
connection at all.
It should also work on a Mac.

Windows XP boots from USB

Author: Dietmar Stölting, 16. March 2008
dietmar.stoelting@t-online.de
Germany

Thanks to s4e, who told us his idea.

Tutorial (Version 7)

With the USB boot 2.0 solution in XPe FP2007, XPe can boot from USB.

I don't understand, "If you have no USB at all, or all USB is disabled in
Bios or only USB1.1, insert an USBtoPCI slotcard." Basically, adding the
extra PCI card adds USB 2.0 boot support - correct? How does the BIOS get
changed to point to the USB flash disk?

This seems a like a long way to go to get XPe to boot from a USB flash disk.

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
"Dietmar" wrote in message
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Hi Sean,
at the moment it looks quite complicate. But this can be automated.
And it also works for boot from firewire or any other device with an MBR.
This is the first time, that XP USB boot was enabled with no BIOS USB
support at all.
And this is much faster than booting through the Bios, because it always
uses the Microsoft USB 2.0 stack, and no USB 1.1 is to be seen, as most Bios
do,

nice to hear from you
Dietmar