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Topic: Any USB gurus out there?, USB error

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Mr Green

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Posted: June 27 2006,07:22

Hi,

I am having some problems getting DSL to work on my pendrive

Thought that drive was messed up because on boot I get Grub Error 17

In Bios its set for USB-ZIP ....

So I thought I would try a clean brand new pendrive & I get the same error

Code Sample

Grub Grub Loading Stage 1.5
Grub Loading please wait
Error 17

Now I am thinking I have a problem with my Hard Drives ... maybe an old Grub install on mbr

Going to change Hard Drive/Remove to test ....

Anyone else had this problem, or knows how to fix it?

I can run DSL under qemu without any problems at all

TIA

MrGreen

Shagbag

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Posted: June 27 2006,10:29

You might find some help with this thread on the Gentoo forums:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122656

There's also a Gentoo HOWTO on running a 'LiveCD' version of a distro on a USB pendrive. Although not specifically on point, it might give you some ideas:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml

Mr Green

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Posted: June 27 2006,10:39

Hi,

Thanks for your reply ....

I am confused as to why system does not boot ... even with a blank usb device I stil get error

wondering if one of my drives has an old grub install on it...

why that should affect it I do not know ....

I am hoping that a new hard drive will solve the problem

Love booting from USB its soo cool lol

Would using USB-HDD make any diference?

TIA

humpty

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Posted: June 27 2006,10:44

no harm in trying it.

back to the first question, do you still get the error if
the usb pen is not plugged in?

Mr Green

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Posted: June 27 2006,11:22

No I can boot system without pendrive plugged in no problem

I use lilo bootloader to load linux...

Thats why I cannot figure out why Grub even loads

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