USB booting :: Realtek gets in teh way of USB boot

Hello. I have an Acer Aspire 1640 with a DaneElec 256MB USB Kay. Arithmomaniac932: I used the Syslinux/DSL combo to get my BIOS to boot thius far:

For realtek rtl8139(x)/8130/810x pci fast ethernet controller....
client mac addr: 88 16 36 14 E5 92 etc.
no boot filename recieved
pxe-mof exiting pxe rom
operating system not dound

On another computer, it skips step 2

What can I do?

From the output posted looks like an attempt to do a PXE boot.
Are you sure your BIOS is not set to do a "network" boot?

USB boot needs to be higher up the list than network boot. However on some machines network boot is the failsafe and is attemped when all other boot devices fail.

Quote (roberts @ Dec. 01 2006,17:51)

From the output posted looks like an attempt to do a PXE boot.
Are you sure your BIOS is not set to do a "network" boot?

USB boot needs to be higher up the list than network boot.

USB HDD hard drive boot is the highest thing on the list - I even put the floppy and CD boots below.

I looked further into this and came up with the following conclusions:

I can't boot from the USB, network is a last resort

Yet I don't have a CD burner to make a USB boot disk

Also, I would rather keep my DSL installation as small as possible, so I want to avoid dsl-embedded if it will not zip itself back up

What can I do?

You don't need a CD burner to make a floppy.
The boot floppies are available as a separate download.
Writing the image to an actual floppy is in the Wiki.

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