On Wednesday, October 10 2001, Jim Lin said: > Would you mind explain why was I able to use usb floppy to boot from floppy. > I saw initrd.img and vmlinuz were being read and executed? Looks like the > system has no problem reading from usb floppy drive. Because the initrd and kernel are read by syslinux using BIOS functions and your BIOS can boot from USB floppies (but doesn't provide legacy floppy emulation support) Jeremy