[OmniBook] can I use a usb drive as external boot device?

[Matt Taggart]

"Pareti, Joseph" writes...

> I have created a floppy using the link at:
> 
> And booted the omnibook 6000 using the floppy; it has updated the fw for
> the 3com device (which I believe is the nic) and updated the mba
> version, 4.31. As a result one may now PXE boot, etc. However there is
> still no support for a usb boot at the "phoenix bios", which is my goal.

Ah, I see now that was just the firmware for the 3com mini-pci card (it did 
say that I guess but since that was the only one on the page I mistook it 
for the system bios). I looked again this time under the "Windows 98" 
section of the support page,

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&c
c=us&prodNameId=20053&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=31762&swLang=13&taskId=
135&swEnvOID=20

There are versions 1.81, 1.82, and 1.83 of the system bios there. It says 
they are Windows InstallShield and that they will create a floppy. I tried 
running it via Wine and it looked identical to the 3com mini-pci one.

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Matt Taggart        Open Source & Linux Organization R&D
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