boot to usb hard disk

[jkimballmisc]

I know this can be done - but haven't been able to figure it out.

I want to boot off an external USB hard disk (Iomega Ion drive) - and
load Ghost images. The system BIOS supports booting from a USB device
(it seems it - but I need to fdisk the drive so that it is bootable).

I am able to load the USB driver on a DOS boot disk - but fdisk
doesn't work - it says "unable to access" the drive.

I'm using the Panasonic USB driver with the following config.sys

DOS=HIGH,UMB
LASTDRIVE=Z
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /testmemff
DEVICE=usbaspi.sys /v /e

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards, Jerry Kimball

 

[Arno Wagner]

I know this can be done - but haven't been able to figure it out.

I want to boot off an external USB hard disk (Iomega Ion drive) - and
load Ghost images. The system BIOS supports booting from a USB device
(it seems it - but I need to fdisk the drive so that it is bootable).

I am able to load the USB driver on a DOS boot disk - but fdisk
doesn't work - it says "unable to access" the drive.

I'm using the Panasonic USB driver with the following config.sys

DOS=HIGH,UMB
LASTDRIVE=Z
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /testmemff
DEVICE=usbaspi.sys /v /e

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards, Jerry Kimball

You just want to fdisk the external drive? Why not do it with
Windows or Linux?

Arno

 

[Andy]

I know this can be done - but haven't been able to figure it out.

I want to boot off an external USB hard disk (Iomega Ion drive) - and
load Ghost images. The system BIOS supports booting from a USB device
(it seems it - but I need to fdisk the drive so that it is bootable).

I am able to load the USB driver on a DOS boot disk - but fdisk
doesn't work - it says "unable to access" the drive.

I'm using the Panasonic USB driver with the following config.sys

DOS=HIGH,UMB
LASTDRIVE=Z
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /testmemff
DEVICE=usbaspi.sys /v /e

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards, Jerry Kimball

That USB driver is only for CD drives. You shouldn't need any driver.
Does the BIOS recognize the USB drive during POST?