making bootability stick

Forum: USB booting
Topic: making bootability stick
started by: dwin

Posted by dwin on Dec. 23 2004,01:23

I have several pendrives, different sizes and makers, which I have got to boot dsl.
But after some time of disuse, they won't boot any more.
Running syslinux on them makes them bootable again, but only temporarily.
Anyone seen this or have any ideas ?
tia

Posted by ispmike on Dec. 23 2004,03:07

They won't boot at all or do you get to the boot screen and then knoppix can't be found?

Posted by dwin on Dec. 23 2004,04:06

they aren't seen as bootable and the machine goes to the HD to boot

Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 23 2004,05:39

Try doing the following:

Enable USB keyboard emulation in your BIOS
Disable Fast Boot in your BIOS

Try a "Soft Reboot" IE: CTL-ALT-DEL

and see if the "bad" drives can boot up.

Posted by dwin on Dec. 24 2004,07:06

thanx for the suggestions
the keyboard thing seems to help on my more current machine - the other one is too old for such fancy bios tweaks!

Posted by kdoto on Dec. 24 2004,23:12

wtf, how old is that machine that it doesnt have the fast boot option? lol
like 1990?

am i going crazy, or has "fast boot" (basically dont do a full ram check) been an option for a long.. *long* time?