USB booting :: USB Boot Starts then Stops

After some messing about I got my laptop to boot from a USB stick (Sony USB 1.1).

The boot starts, then asks me for parameters (toram, vga=normal, etc). When I enter any of these I get a message stating that they cannot be found. If I continue with no parameters then the boot stops stating that it cannot find Knoppix and drops back into an extremely limited shell.

Since the Knoppix folder/file is on the USB stick, any ideas what the problem might be?

Note that I followed the various posts to create the boot USB in the first place except that I used the DSL embedded files rather than the DSL CD files as I never managed to burn a CD (kept getting two *.bin files on the CD for some reason).

Creating a Bootable CD

Embedded doesn't have all the files you need.

Once you get the CD burned, type "dsl install" at the boot command line, and choose between USB-HDD and USB-ZIP, depending on what your bios supports.

Sounds like you'll probably want usb-hdd, since you already got it booting.

-J.P.

I was using some Roxio software that came with my laptop (Dell Latitude D400) to burn the DSL iso file to CD - all I got was two files named bootcat.bin and bootimg.bin.

After I installed Deep Burner from download.com I managed to burn the DSL iso to CD. The CD booted and I managed to create a bootable USB memory stick using an old 64Mb Sony USB 1.1 stick.

It takes ages for USB 1.1 to copy the DSL files to ramdisk but things work fine after that except I have to figure out what screen mode to use to get decent colours on screen.

Thanks

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