Compact flash boot on removable media

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Is possible to boot from a removable medea. I could not find a way to mark my flashcard (kingston cf/256) as un removable. Thanks in advance
 
If the question is only:
Is possible to boot from a removable media?
Then answer would be:
Yes it is possible.

Regards,
Slobodan

Frank Alcantara said:
Is possible to boot from a removable medea. I could not find a way to mark
my flashcard (kingston cf/256) as un removable. Thanks in advance
 
Hi Sloboda

I saw I lot of posts from you about this topic, read all then, but could not figure out how can I do this? Could you please help me? are there some doc about this in some place? Please forgive my awful English and thanks in advance.
 
Would you like SDI RAM boot, or normal boot.

I have never tried normal boot on removable CF.
Also make sure that CF is connected to IDE adapter and not to USB.

Format CF with FAT/FAT32 from windows XP. Or use bootprep. (Somehow you need
to set PBR to find ntldr)

Copy ntldr. to CF.
Copy boot.ini with two OS entries and some time out.
This will allow you to see if ntldr and boot.ini are loaded. If they are
not, then creating XPe image will not help you.

Regards,
Slobodan


Frank Alcantara said:
Hi Slobodan

I saw I lot of posts from you about this topic, read all then, but could
not figure out how can I do this? Could you please help me? are there some
doc about this in some place? Please forgive my awful English and thanks in
advance.
 
I think you need to provide more information on the platform you are using.
CF media can support XPE but you must format it to boot to XPE with
bootprep. But are you using a USB CF reader to boot then you would need to
do more and use the SDI loader to configure the device.

Frank Alcantara said:
Is possible to boot from a removable medea. I could not find a way to mark
my flashcard (kingston cf/256) as un removable. Thanks in advance
 
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