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I need help with the boot

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I need help with the boot
« on: 29 / June / 2010, 02:06:34 »
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hi all
I need to make a bootable SD card in a computer that the BIOS doesnt support booting from SD
i got my bootable program on the SD
and i can boot it from several new PCs
but the older PCs does not support booting from SD card
anyone knows any booting device (CD / usb) or some how to change the BIOS to make the booting from SD work in the old PCs ????


thanks in advance

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Re: I need help with the boot
« Reply #1 on: 29 / June / 2010, 02:58:11 »
Hello & welcome, abadatom !

I need to make a bootable SD card in a computer that the BIOS doesnt support booting from SD
I guess you mean CHDK-bootable (i.e. to start CHDK automatically when the camera is powered on) ?
This is NOT "bootable" in terms of starting (booting) a operating system from a drive...

Making a SD card CHDK-bootable means: writing a tag "BOOTDISK" into the MBR (master boot record, the card's first sector) to get the Canon firmware loading the diskboot.bin file.

With MS Windows you can use Cardtricks to prepare a card...

See also: CHDK wikia - bootable SD card

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Re: I need help with the boot
« Reply #2 on: 29 / June / 2010, 03:08:22 »
I need to make a bootable SD card in a computer that the BIOS doesnt support booting from SD
i got my bootable program on the SD
and i can boot it from several new PCs
but the older PCs does not support booting from SD card

quote from usbkey.txt of syslinux
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The proper mode to boot a USB key drive in is "USB-HDD".  That is the
ONLY mode in which the C/H/S geometry encoded on the disk itself
doesn't have to match what the BIOS thinks it is.  Since geometry on
USB drives is completely arbitrary, and can vary from BIOS to BIOS,
this is the only mode which will work in general.

Some BIOSes have been reported (in particular, certain versions of the
Award BIOS) that cannot boot USB keys in "USB-HDD" mode.  This is a
very serious BIOS bug, but it is unfortunately rather typical of the
kind of quality we're seeing out of major BIOS vendors these days.  On
these BIOSes, you're generally stuck booting them in USB-ZIP mode.

THIS MEANS THE FILESYSTEM IMAGE ON THE DISK HAS TO HAVE A CORRECT
ZIPDRIVE-COMPATIBLE GEOMETRY.
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I hope this will help you
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