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xadamz23
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Posted: Mar. 10 2005,06:38

I am unable to get DSL to boot from my USB key.

I have a Sandisk 512MB Micro.

My steps:

1. Extracted bootusb-8.0.img to the root of my USB drive
2. Extracted dsl-0.9.3.iso to a temp directory
3. copied the contents of the temp directory to my USB drive

What am I doing wrong?

cbagger01

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Posted: Mar. 11 2005,03:19

Did you use syslinux or a boot utility to make the device bootable?

Schnoge

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Posted: Mar. 11 2005,07:24

Hi,
i tried cpfong's "step by step" on my "USB Bar 256MB", but I allways have a problem that it's booting till the message "can't find knoppix filesystem" appears.
There's a problem when the system searches for the knoppix-file. He can't find the file on the usb bar. Why?
But when I'm starting DSL on CD I can access the usb bar within DSL on "/dev/sda".

Another strange behavior is, when I'm trying to cfdisk the usb bar, that he gets an error.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help.

Schnoge

cbagger01

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Posted: Mar. 11 2005,17:39

Hmm...

Maybe it looks for the knoppix file on /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/sda

Try booting with

dsl fromhd=/dev/sda

and see if it helps.

xadamz23
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Posted: Mar. 11 2005,19:43

Quote (cbagger01 @ Mar. 10 2005,22:19)

Did you use syslinux or a boot utility to make the device bootable?

Well the first time I tried I did not use syslinux because most of the instructions on this forum dont mention it. Then I found a thread that mentioned using syslinux and I tried it, but that didnt work either.

Im supposed to use syslinux after all my files are on the USB key correct? Am I supposed to use a certain switch when I run syslinux? I think I used -s, but im not totally sure.

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