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Topic: Intel D850EMV2 motherboard USB question, I'm having trouble with booting from USB< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
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Posted: Mar. 18 2007,22:10 QUOTE

I currently have DSL installed on a 64mb flash drive. It is recognized as 'Generic Flash Disk'. It is bootable on the rest of my PCs.

I recently got received a Intel D850EMV2 Motherboard with a 2.4gz processor for free, And want to run DSL on it with no drives, boot from USB, that's it.

I've installed Ubuntu 6.10 on an old hard drive, and it works perfectly. It also was running WinXP before that, so the board is fine.

In the BIOS, the flash disk is detected as a hard drive if it is plugged in at boot.

The problem I am having is very strange. Instead of a "Boot Failed" or any other error, all that appears on my monitor when I am trying to boot from it is a lowercase j. I've tried almost every method possible to create the bootable pendrive, but I USB-ZIP isn't supported, and all i get is the lowercase j.
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Posted: Mar. 19 2007,13:51 QUOTE

If it's detected as a hdd, try a USB-HDD installation?
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Posted: Mar. 19 2007,16:55 QUOTE

I've tried USB-HDD and ZIP from the live CD, tried using flashboot with the CD image, just about every install type imaginable. I think it is a quirk with the motherboard, I was wondering if there was a workaround, or if I have been doing something wrong.
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Posted: Mar. 19 2007,19:01 QUOTE

Did you check if there were any BIOS updates relating to this?
Did you also try any other available usb ports?  or even reverting to legacy usb support (1.x)?
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