Acer laptop doesn't see Kensington Stick

Forum: USB booting
Topic: Acer laptop doesn't see Kensington Stick
started by: Minda

Posted by Minda on Feb. 27 2006,15:53

Hi,

i've been fiddling with DSL for a week, and I would like to try it on my laptop. It's an Acer, about 2 years old, and I get the following 4 boot options in the bios:
1) Removable Device
2) Hard Drive,
3) CD-ROM / DVD-ROM
4) Intel UNDI PXE.20 (Build 082)
The middle two I understand, the top one I hoped would the the USB stick, but unfornunately it isn't. The fourth I haven't got a clue about, haven't tried it. Is there a way to add the USB stick to the options?

Cheers,

Hugo

Posted by simpletech on Feb. 27 2006,23:11

Hi....don't know if this will help you or not but I'm also trying to install DSL to my Kensington 512Mb stick and my bios was not seeing it, either (P4 WinXP, 2.6, etc.) .....It showed the "removable drives" options, but my problem was that I had a memory card reader (multi card) plugged in and it seems that the reader was using all 3 available slots, and my Kensington was too far down the list -- removed the card reader, voila....there's the Kensington. I was able to then choose it as my primary boot device -- when unplugged it just goes straight to WinXP.

Now....that being said.....I got an error message when attempting to boot from my pendrive -- invalid device, or something. I unpacked the embedded DSL to the pendrive as per a recommendation here on the board, but now I think I'll have to try and boot from a CDR and then install into the Pendrive after having booted to DSL. Was hoping I could do it the "easy" way, but apparently that's not gonna happen.

Good luck!

Posted by spock on Feb. 28 2006,00:22

Hello,

On my Acer laptop booting from a USB device is under Hard Drive in the Bios, but only when plugged in. This means you have to enter the Bios to change the sequence everythime you want to boot from a pendrive, not very convenient...

Cheers

Posted by _pathos on Feb. 28 2006,01:22

At uni my usb was identified as a hard drive in kde so I suppose thats common.

I just mount /mnt/usb anyway.