USB booting :: USB booting problem...

Quite frankly, this is the first stab at linux ,

Ive unzipped DSL to a USB pendrive.. done also syslinux...

the pendrive boots ok on an P4 LGA775 3Ghz on ASUS P5P800s machine

But it hangs during bootup on a AMD Sempron 2800+ on ECS K8M800-M2 (bios v.2) machine...

I tried to use the failsafe option, vga, minimal detect etc.. but still no luck...

Booted WinXp on same machine (Sempron) and tried to run DSL embedded... it hanged on first try with a memory read error, tried 2nd time (no options changed) and booted ok...

On both machines (P4 / AMD Sempron), DSL detects it as Pentium II (Klamath), is this ok?

Are there any compatibility issues here or something else?

I appreciate any help...

You might try adding vga=normal to a line by itself in your lilo or grub text file, opening X is where I run into the most trouble. Once you get to the desktop, you should have it made (if this is the problem). You can then use xvesa setup from the menu or xsetup.sh on a command line to change your display.

yup .. already did that...
used the lowest disp resolution... everything
still no luck...

It's probably a hardware issue. In the bootline, after dsl, put noacpi noamp apm=off

But if it hangs with WinXP too, then you may have a memory stick problem.

thanks for the reply...

well, i dont tink the problem is wid the memory...

ive already torture tested it with memtest for about 12hrs straight without any problems.. also burned it with prime95, sandra, everest etc...

well ive installed fedora core and it worked fine, also gonna test ubuntu to see what would be the best...

thanks everyone...

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