USB boot occasionally can't find image

Forum: USB booting
Topic: USB boot occasionally can't find image
started by: Dukeman

Posted by Dukeman on May 02 2005,18:04

Hello!
I have installed DSL 0.9.2 to my USB drive (a Kingston Datatraveler 256MB) and after much pain it works. Most of the time

Sometimes during boot i get tons of info about places the image WASN'T found, and it fills the screen just enough to push /dev/sda1 off the screen (If it's even in that list) which is where my DSL is installed.

Most of the times it all works fine, and that's what kind of bothers me... i never thought a computer had "Sometimes" in it's vocabulary, hence i believe its human error behind this.

What did i do wrong?

Posted by ke4nt1 on May 02 2005,18:22

I've heard of instances where the front USB ports ( usually cable fed )
can be flaky at times, but the rear USB ports ( built-into-mobo) seem to work better .
You might ask clivesay about this, as he has mentioned seeing this.
Meanwhile, give it a shot, if you have been using the front ones ..

73
ke4nt

Posted by Dukeman on May 02 2005,20:02

Well actually i have been using the soldered connections in the rear, but i guess i should look my BIOS settings over, and maybe find another bucket that can boot from USB and try it there.

Posted by roixnus on May 10 2005,03:18

Mine is never able to find the image. I've been trying to get my Sandisk Micro Cruzer 512 to boot from Slax, Feather and DSL all with no luck. It does boot to dos and starts booting on all three distros I mentioned, but always hangs about half way in, looking for the image in DSL.

Roy

Posted by roberts on May 10 2005,04:34

When writing a post of failure it is helpful to also post your BIOS brand as well as the BIOS booting options, and geometry attempted. It is a known problem that AMIBIOS has the most problems booting. Also, some BIOS have particular timing problems. It would be nice to be able to identfy, categorize, and share such. Just stating the brand of pendrive is only part of the equation. Also, have you tried the two new scripts?

Posted by roixnus on May 10 2005,18:00

Good point, I never even considered the bios. My laptop has Phoenix bios, Version A14. It doesn't have multiple USB boot options like other I've seen on forums. It says "USB Storage Device".

Thanks,

Roy