USB drive not recognised ?Forum: USB booting Topic: USB drive not recognised ? started by: humpty Posted by humpty on Feb. 15 2007,20:31
USB Booting Blues?Some drives are not even recognised by the motherboard let alone booting into DSL. I've been testing out the latest GParted Live CD partition editor. < http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ > And I must say I'm most impressed. Linux based, Easy to use, Free, but most importantly; Compared to other partition utilities I've used, it has the highest success rate of making my usb pens, flash-drives, storage-cards, gadgets and wot-not - recognised by the various motherboards at home or work. One of the problems with using various utilities is that they don't like each other; e.g mkdosfs can sometimes render a partition initialised with sfdisk to be unrecogised. You can't have user defined geometry with GParted, but it does initialise with geometry-friendly values. It also formats to dos, allows multiple partitions (better to seperate the knoppix image) and sizing, resizing is graphical. You will ofcourse have to follow this with a syslinux or freedos bootloader depending on your setup, but at least you would have got over the first stumbling block. /tip Just make sure to initialise ('make-label') and ensure there are zero bytes before the first partition. |