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gboy13
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 Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject: boot failed |
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| Using a 1gb usb drive i installed usb-hdd from vmware and dsl-n boots fine on my house machine but when I take it to school I set up the bios to boot from usb and when it trys to boot it gives the error "boot failed" and I hit enter and it just boots up windows. How do I make it bootable from the school computer or fix the error? |
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Juanito
Joined: 11 Sep 2006
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Location: Dubai, U.A.E.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:59 am Post subject: Try This |
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You could try:
1. Format the USB stick with one FAT32 partition.
or
2. Format the USB stick with two FAT16 or two FAT32 partitions, the first of which is <512MB. |
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gboy13
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:41 am Post subject: |
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you can't format because once you start the usb-hdd install it automaticly makes 1 partion but using the usb-zip it worked on my school computer because it made 2 partions.
but I also use windows and the zip partion makes 900mb of my drive unreadable by windows because it only supports tumb drives with 1 partion so I would like to try and find another solution to usb-hdd booting. |
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roberts
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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Location: OC CA USA
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:02 am Post subject: |
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Some computers can boot USB-ZIP style and some computers can boot USB-HDD. Seems like school is the first style and home is the second.
And BTW only XP limits you to seeing only one partition.
Another option is to stay with USB-HDD for home and use the cdrom to boot to USB on school computers. Unless they have locked that down. |
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gboy13
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I could boot at school with the cd but then I could not save my settings or is there a way to save the settings on the usb drive and reboot with the cd to those settings? |
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Juanito
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Location: Dubai, U.A.E.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:40 am Post subject: Use Restore Cheatcode |
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I believe that by default, DSL-N will try to restore settings from sda1.
If your USB stick is connected when you boot from CD, DSL-N sould try to restore settings from the USB stick. If for some reason, your USB stick is not sda1, you can boot with the cheatcode restore=sdb1 or wherever your USB stick appears. |
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gboy13
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| yea it is sdb1 but how do i get it to backup to sdb1? |
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Juanito
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:00 am Post subject: Use Control Panel |
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Use the DSL control panel, click on backup/restore and enter sdb1.
Next time you boot from CD, enter the cheatcode restore=sdb1 |
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