problems booting

Forum: USB booting
Topic: problems booting
started by: lclgeek

Posted by lclgeek on Nov. 26 2006,17:28

I installed DSL to my 512MB Dane-Electric flash drive via live cd and it wont boot to it. I have tried both USB-HDD and USB-ZIP both of which my BIOS has support for and I set them to boot first for each try I did but I get nothing, it doesnt appear to even try to boot, no error messages or anything. this is a Giga-byte 7N400 Pro2 motherboard, here is a link to some specs < http://www.futurepowerpc.com/scripts....EFID=PW >

EDIT: also, I checked to make sure the bootable option was set on the drive with fdisk -l on my native linux OS

Disk /dev/sdg: 512 MB, 512753664 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 489 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdg1 * 1 50 51184 6 FAT16
/dev/sdg2 51 489 449536 b W95 FAT32

Posted by humpty on Nov. 28 2006,20:15

don't know is this helps but on some bios's the usb-drive shows up as a real hard-drive. if it does, you have to select it in a different sub menu (hard drive boot priority).