11 Jan
2008
11 Jan
'08
4:44 a.m.
On Jan 11, 2008 6:09 AM, Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
On 11/01/2008 01:20, Chris M wrote:
I'm playing around with a couple of CF to IDE adapters. So far I've gotten
several flavors of Linux, DOS, Win98 and WinXP booting off a 2gb CF card on
several different motherboards from AOpen, intel, Shuttle, Asus and Tyan. I
almost got a small RAID booting with a pair of CF adapters and cards
attached to an Adaptec 1200A IDE RAID card. I have a couple of old Dell and
Compaq laptops to try next.
James
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I'm stumped. All I have to work with is a
WinXP laptop
that doesn't boot off anything special in particular.
The CD drive yes, but that's about it. I once was able
to make bootable CD's w/early versions of Norton, but
I doubt that would work for a compact flash card.
You can't boot an OS from a CompactFlash card in a card reader slot.
You have to have it in an IDE-to-CF adapter (which is a simple passive
device, there's no electronics involved) connected to your HDD
controller, so the computer sees the CF card as an IDE drive. If you
set it up that way, then you should be able to format it as bootable.
You certainly can using Linux, and it should be possible using DOS
booted from a floppy. Of course, this might be problematic on a laptop!