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
Previously jkimballmisc@verizon.net wrote:
> 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
>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?
boot to usb hard disk 
ff
Linear Mode
