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Saju
2006-09-20
2012-10-15
  • Saju

    Saju - 2006-09-20

    Greetings,

    I am looking to see if it is possible for Boch's PC BIOS to boot a program off a USB stick. Specifically want to know if Boch's PCBIOS will be able to support INT13h to read in data from the USB stick.

    Also, will the PCBIOS have to support USB or can it use the host OS capabilities to read info from the USB stick ?

    -srp

     
    • Volker Ruppert

      Volker Ruppert - 2006-09-20

      Bochs currently has no support for USB mass storage devices. It can only boot from the first floppy, first cdrom or first hard drive. We can think about USB stuff in the BIOS when there is emulated hardware it can use.
      On the other side there is currently no support to access USB hardware connected to the host.

       
  • anatoly techtonik

    There seems to be support for USB in 2.4.6. Does this support include USB mass
    storage devices? What is required to add support for booting from USB?

     
  • Volker Ruppert

    Volker Ruppert - 2011-07-15

    USB mass storage devices are emulated by Bochs. Please see our docs for how to
    connect a disk image to an USB port. The Bochs BIOS does not yet have support
    for booting from USB, but Bochs from SVN is now able to use SeaBIOS.

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2012-02-01

    Hi

    Does Bochs 2.5.1 support booting os from usb stick with seaBIOS now?

    Thanks!

     

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