[Coco] Bootable PCI USB Card? (On-Topic, really!)

[Mike Pepe]

Rod Barnhart wrote:
> There are adapters that take a USB drive and plug into a CF reader? If so,
> then he could plug said CF reader into an IDE cable, and problem solved 
> (not
> the most elegant solution though). Otherwise, the original problem 
> remains -
> he's not able to boot from a USB device.
> 
> Rod
> 

No, but a 1 or 2G CF card would hold more than enough info to just boot 
a DOS image and run an emulator with some CoCo floppy images.

Another option would be to use a boot loader, like grub, and just set up 
a DOS partition on another physical disk.