USB booting :: Thumb Drive Screwed Up
You can still try a USBHDD format and see if it works with your BIOS. You never know.
Also, you can see if you get get a BIOS upgrade for your computer.
Otherwise, you may need a usb floppy boot disk in order to get it to work with your computer.
Finally, if you are adventurous, you can edit the USBZIP install script and change the formatting process so that you have a large (250MB?) partition #1 FAT and a small 6MB? partition #2 for linux backups.
Well, I tried to install it has a USBZIP again but when I boot off of the USB I get a ton of errors. I tried the commands from the other thread but they don't seem to be doing anything.
original here.