From: noemail@basdxcqvbe.com   
      
   On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 20:35:46 -0700 (PDT)   
   "muta...@gmail.com"  wrote:   
      
   > On Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 1:22:04 PM UTC+10, Rod Pemberton wrote:   
      
   > > I wonder if anyone has done this or something similar for DOS or   
   > > even CP/M. I'm sure there are some diehards who won't give up DOS   
   > > (or CP/M) even in the face of UEFI. Maybe, they already coded a   
   > > UEFI-shim to drop out of LM and into RM, install a usable BIOS,   
   > > then start up DOS (or CP/M). Worth a search?   
   >   
   > Do any computer vendors allow you to flash a floppy disk   
   > image? If I could set the computer to boot from floppy,   
   > that would cover almost everything I want. I just get the   
   > above floppy to boot the first hard disk.   
      
   Well, I have a bootable compact-flash to IDE adapter which I moved part   
   of my DOS partition onto, which I'll likely need to replace with a   
   compact-flash to SATA adapter (or similar) for my next computer.  When   
   you combine the adapter with a compact flash card, it functions like a   
   very small, very slow SSD.  I have a larger compact-flash memory card   
   here which I've been meaning to, being lazy, moving the entire DOS   
   partition onto. But, I really don't see the point in doing this   
   anymore.  Just get a cheap SSD.  Cheapest SSD here is $22 USD for 120GB.   
      
   > Actually, since I never use floppies anyway, maybe I can   
   > burn a floppy image to USB stick, make the boot priority   
   > to go to floppies-on-USB, and then what I need is for my   
   > remaining USB sticks to appear as hard disk images,   
   > and have priority over the internal hard disk.   
      
   Yes, you should be able to do that, but I had problems with this older   
   machine.  I tried putting floppy and hard disk images onto USB and   
   booting them.  Look for USB-FDD, USB-HDD, and USB-ZIP booting, or my   
   post which comes up on Google's second page:   
      
   https://groups.google.com/g/alt.os.development/c/gtA0v5QDkyI/m/s7nN6u9MBwAJ   
      
      
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