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[kcom]

If an device is hd0,0 or hd1,0... Currently I just know it. But is there a way to list all those devices in FreeDOS?

My plan is the following. There is a motherboard without USB booting support. I start freedos, load the USB driver (them are working great), then start grub4dos. Can I chainload the bootsector of the USB device now? I just don`t know what comes inside ( ) now or if this is even possible.

[was_jaclaz]

Sorry to say so, but your plan appears a bit flawed, I don't think it will work.

Grub4dos misses (for the moment) an internal USB stack, so, as soon as it takes control, it will "loose" the connection to the USB device.

Read this thread:
http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=18650
which was left unfinished for lack of interest, you may want to do some experiments along that.

An alternative may be, at least for some operating systems, the newish version of PLOP:
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html
http://www.plop.at/e...mngrusblog.html
still VERY experimental

Another started thread left unfinished is here (2K/XP related) is here:
http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=20450

Finally, if you are talking about XP, it is possible and confirmed to be working, although still very experimental as well, the "XP Kansas city shuffle" fake signature method (requiring on internal hard disk a small - 50 Mbyte roughly - RAW disk image) :
http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=21242

To explore devices (and find their grub4dos ID) you can:
1) use the "find" or "find -set--root" command in grub4dos searching for a "tag" file
2) use grub4dos autocompletion features on command line
(see this seemingly unrelated thread):
http://www.boot-land...?showtopic=3833
and use the grub4dos "geometry" command to verify a given drive

jaclaz