On 2/28/2012 6:01 AM, Invisible wrote:
> On 28/02/2012 10:02 AM, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>
>> Or, just a search on, "make usb flash drive bootable". Pages and pages
>> of ways to do it, most of them Linux based, but some others.
>
> Someone probably has a ready-made script to boot Linux from a flash
> drive, probably using Grub. But I'm trying to boot MS-DOS. I imagine
> that's going to be harder. (USB didn't /exist/ when MS-DOS was written,
> after all...)
http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

Gives a number of examples, some of which are "basically" what I said 
before. But, no, its exactly the same process. As long as the stick has 
been formatted, and set up, to be bootable, it doesn't care, any more 
than the system does, that its a flash drive, instead of an HDD.

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