USB booting :: USB Boot Guide

I have set my BIOS at USB-HDD, and did the HP formating, and copied the DSL-embedded exept the qemu files, and run the syslinux.

Then I rebooted my computer and it just booted like usual and not with my USB...

When I started syslinux, I saw just for a second the DOS window and it closed.
Is this right?

What I have to do more to get my USB booting???

<edit>i got it booting... i forgot my bios to disable quickboot :laugh:

stupid :P

Work fine on a old USB flesh Apacer 128MB Hendy Steno!

Works on a Pleomax 2GB. The trick, in my case, was to format it to Fat32 (simple FAT wouldn't work) and use the latest syslinux, that works on the larger clusters of fat32.

Quote (Thirsterhall @ Nov. 17 2006,02:52)

Quote (SeelenGeier @ Oct. 20 2006,09:16)

Hi,

I have a very annoying problem...
I followed your guide and everything worked fine on my computer...but...
I also have a Dell Optiplex GX620 and i tried to boot DSL on it...
it works until a bit after the usb-scanning is completed.
then he only says "sorry, no Knoppix filesystem was found" (something like that

) then i only see:
Knoppix#

and my Keyboard won't work...the keyboard is an usb-device just like the mouse...i can't replace these

well if i boot with "nousb" the keyboard works fine but there still ist the filesystem problem.
I'm searching for an answer since monday

it really gets on my nerves...
even failsafe mode didn't work...

my suggestions are either the usb causes the conflict (keyboard indicates something like this) or a hardware problem (which will be fixed by some really easy command i didn't see)
It worked when i started DSL in windows XP but i need it to boot directly into DSL...any ideas?

thanks
SeelenGeier

I have the exact same problem with a Dell Optiplex GX520.

A few additional notes:
I tried to boot DSL from a CDRom which worked. Well almost I didn't have any mouse. Without the mouse I couldn't do much. Ya it's a USB mouse the Dell Optiplex systems don't have ps2 connectors so it's all USB.

I then tried the beta release with the exact same results.

I then tired Feather Linux using the exact same process as posted for DSL and that is what I'm posting from now, IE it worked fine no USB problems. FYI It's version 0.7.4

Hi,

I had the same problem with booting DSL embedded natively rather than with qemu in XP - everything works like a charm within XP but when trying to boot directly into DSL it'd die with a knoppix image not found problem and give me a shell with very limited functionality even helpfully listing six commands I could use.

I formatted the usb drive (sandisk titanium 2gb) as FAT16 not FAT32 and tried the instructions again - this fixed the headache with my desktop and its award bios which does support USB-ZIP but does not seem to like FAT32. This was the only change I made and I'm not quite sure why it made any difference.

After reformatting as FAT16 I could boot into DSL but by USB mouse (logitech mx310) wouldn't work - logitech supplies a ps/2-usb adapter so I used it and that problem went away. That feels like cheating and won't help one whit if you don't have a ps/2 port for your mouse anymore - a few people have tried fiddling with xsetup.sh and got the mouse to work so maybe you can look for those posts.

good luck.

If I format my mp3 player with the tool in the first post it won't stop working, right?
Because with the winxp formatter it gives me an error when i type syslinux.exe G: and i was wondering how this one is different..
I don't wanna break my mp3 player. If that happens i will suicide and than my parents will kill me again

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