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Topic: can`t boot from usb, this is not what u think

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krazynesphreak Offline

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Posted: May 25 2004,18:21

the problem is i`m tring to boot on my usb thamb drive and i can`t. b/c my on board usb dose not work at all. so what i have done is installed a PCI usb 2.0 so i can use usb. but i can`t boot up on it. this is what happens i start my computer and there is no power to my thamb drive untell i start booting from an OS. so what i think i need is some type of boot disk that will alow my thamb drive to get power and boot from it is there any way of doing this? i do get power to my hub and my joystick i use on start up. i can boot from my thamb drive on a diff computer that dose have on board usb still working.
can u guys/gals help me out or dose this make any sines at all.
thanks
ryan

ripcrd6

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Posted: May 27 2004,14:49

Have you tried the usb boot floppy image file that was released at the time of 0.6.3?
You may need to introduce some sort of wait state to give the card time to get powered up. May also need some extra kernel module on the floppy to activate the card. Sorry I can't help more.

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Posted: May 27 2004,17:43

yes i have tried the boot disk, and yes i have tried a "wait state" or time waiting but none of them worked. the only time i see it power up is when the os is booting. configging itself on startup on linux and windows os, and i can`t use it in dos. thanks for adless tring to help i guess i should just use dsl the way it was mint to be use.