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Topic: Not able to boot from USB, DSL usb pre-installed points to cd

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-=terry=-

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Posted: April 04 2006,02:06

cbagger01 thxs.

1. yes booting without the sata loads the pend drive.

2. I update dsl to 2.1b from the live cd. It asked me for booting parameters and I add ->dsl sata<-

3. I tried to boot from the pen drive now with 2.1b (instead of the 2.2b that came with the pend drive). It loads sata, then scans usb, then look as scd1 and can not find the image and produce the errors as before.
If I choose f2 and type ->dsl sata expert<-. It loads sata and then after questions boots ok. In this session I can mount satas without problem. The pen drive is represented by sde1 (I have 4 sata drives sda, sdb, sdc, sdd). Using the mounting tool when i tried to mount sde1 (the pend drive) says ->irregular<- and then a sign shows ->This partition is already mounted at /cdrom/-<
Even though the system boots seems that there is a problem to initialized the pendrive when I boot from it.

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Posted: April 05 2006,03:44

I'm stumped about the "expert" option being required for you.

When I boot my DSL 2.1b USB drive and

dsl sata

it boots up just fine, with "sda" as my SATA drive devicename and "sdb" as my USB storage devicename

The biggest problem I had was when my Backup/Restore location was "sda1" for previous bootups, and then I booted USB + sata and the backup process tried to save the file to my SATA drive instead of the USB drive.

Maybe the 4 SATA devices has something to do with the "expert" requirement.

The irregular mounting /cdrom partition is normal behavior for a USB bootup.

Basically, the USB device is treated like a read/write livecd from the perspective of the DSL/KNOPPIX booting scripts, thus the name "/cdrom" for the mountpoint even though you are not booting from a real CD drive.

-=terry=-

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Posted: April 06 2006,03:49

cbagger01, your replies are great thanks. It seems the only problem remaining the the booting from the USB pend drive. It is not a problem with hardware recognition because everything is ok with the live CD. It has to be a problem with the pen drive. What I do different with I use the expert option versus the default that explains this behaviour?
This weekend I will work a little more with it.

Again thanks for your great info.

-=terry=-

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Posted: April 06 2006,04:38

When you use the "expert" option, you load your driver modules in a slow, prompted way. Even if you answer the questions quickly, it is still much slower than when they are automatically loaded by the non-"expert" boot process.

This is the biggest difference that I can think of.

-=terry=-

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Posted: April 06 2006,21:45

cbagger01 module loading speed may be the problem. For exampl now I am in dsl and it boot ok (in the none-expert mode) but that is not often. My system is very fast and I may see what other do not see in slower systems.

HAND

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