Any USB gurus out there?

Forum: USB booting
Topic: Any USB gurus out there?
started by: Mr Green

Posted by Mr Green on June 27 2006,07:22

Hi,

I am having some problems getting DSL to work on my pendrive

Thought that drive was messed up because on boot I get Grub Error 17

In Bios its set for USB-ZIP ....

So I thought I would try a clean brand new pendrive & I get the same error

Code Sample

Grub Grub Loading Stage 1.5
Grub Loading please wait
Error 17

Now I am thinking I have a problem with my Hard Drives ... maybe an old Grub install on mbr

Going to change Hard Drive/Remove to test ....

Anyone else had this problem, or knows how to fix it?

I can run DSL under qemu without any problems at all

TIA

MrGreen

Posted by Shagbag on June 27 2006,10:29

You might find some help with this thread on the Gentoo forums:

< http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122656 >

There's also a Gentoo HOWTO on running a 'LiveCD' version of a distro on a USB pendrive. Although not specifically on point, it might give you some ideas:

< http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml >

Posted by Mr Green on June 27 2006,10:39

Hi,

Thanks for your reply ....

I am confused as to why system does not boot ... even with a blank usb device I stil get error

wondering if one of my drives has an old grub install on it...

why that should affect it I do not know ....

I am hoping that a new hard drive will solve the problem

Love booting from USB its soo cool lol

Would using USB-HDD make any diference?

TIA

Posted by humpty on June 27 2006,10:44

no harm in trying it.

back to the first question, do you still get the error if
the usb pen is not plugged in?

Posted by Mr Green on June 27 2006,11:22

No I can boot system without pendrive plugged in no problem

I use lilo bootloader to load linux...

Thats why I cannot figure out why Grub even loads

Posted by Mr Green on July 02 2006,17:52

Got new hard drive installed, now I get missing operating system error when trying to boot from pendrive

Weird...!!!!

Posted by humpty on July 03 2006,03:33

i think it's skipping the pen drive and trying to boot the new hard drive.