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SDIO/microSD Card Interface

KTLX800/pITX Software Guide

SDIO/microSD Card Interface

The following operating systems allow booting from a microSD card: DOS, Linux and Windows

XP Em-

bedded.
Attention: only the microSD card interface is bootable - not the second SDIO pin header.

4.1

DOS Boot

All standard DOS programs for partitioning and formatting can be used (e.g. FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.COM).
However it can not be guaranteed that all functions of INT13h respectively INT21h work correctly.
Condition: the microSD card is formatted as a harddisk.

The table shows a list of the tested DOS versions.

Operating System

Version

Result

MS-DOS

6.22

✔

MS-DOS

WIN 98 (7.10)

✔

DR-DOS

7.03

✔

4.2

Windows

XP Boot

Direct installation of Windows

XP on a microSD card is not possible at the moment.

4.3

Windows

XP Embedded Boot

As the microSD interface of the KTLX800/pITX is an USB/SDIO bridge it is no problem to boot this operating
system from the microSD card. Only the standard USB boot packages are needed.

This manual is related to the following products:

KTLX800