[Beowulf] Re: real hard drive failures

[Dominic Wu]

It is motherboard dependent and if your BIOS supports USB boot and most
newer ones do, there should be no problem in theory.  That said, booting up
CF (or any solidstate/microdrive devices) via an IDE interface is still
probably easier with less drivers you have to load.

>
> >have you looked into booting from usb-flash?  that would be very
> >much dependent on bios, of course, but far more accessible.
>
> Oooooh... that didn't work so well for me on the various machines I tried
> it on.  The IDE/CF is essentially bios independent (to the BIOS, it just
> looks link another IDE drive).  The USB drive has to have all the USB
stuff
> up and running first.
>
>
> >thanks, mark hahn.
>
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