Doofer
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Joined: Mar. 2005 |
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Posted: April 12 2005,09:05 |
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Good news!
SaidinUnleashed - I am already using 1.0rc2, so no uhci-hcd module to load.
Tronik - nice to try the new kernel, but alas two of my machines need the syslinux boot to boot at all (hang after detecting the cpu for some reason).
HOWEVER - it's not DSL's fault after all. Following a web link, I fdisk-ed the USB key, to find 4 peculiar partitions. After re-formatting as a single FAT32 partition, all is well:
1. DSL boots & uses it fine.
2. WIN can talk to it.
3. And my manky clone notebook has gone back to not being able to detect it with WinXP... just as it always used to not accept USB keys under WinXP... which I find oddly satisfying ;)
(In case anyone else has an apparently duff USB key and wants to try this, see below. REMEMBER you'll lose ALL the data currently on the USB key.
Boot DSL with USB key unplugged.
Open a terminal and type 'sudo su'.
Cross your fingers and plug in the USB key.
'fdisk /dev/sdb' (or sda, sdc, it varies with machine)
p - to display the partitions - if there is more than one, try:
d - delete the old partitions
n - make a new partition
t- set as type 'b' (FAT32)
I then had to format it in WinXP, as it seems there's no mkdosfs in DSL)
Many thanks for the helpful suggestions. I guess this solution could be added to the Hardware Docs?
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