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Topic: USB disk used to boot, yet now it doesn't, Why would this be?

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Posted: May 05 2005,15:27

I've recently bought a Lexar Jumpdrive Elite (256mb) and it works fine. The thing is, when I first got it, it worked fine, and it booted like a charm. BUT, I then tried some experimentation to get DSL to boot from the drive, and in doing this, I know have a non booting usb drive.

This is probably because I deleted the main partition and re-created it.

Even if I format the drive (fat16) then write bootusb-0.8.img to it using winimage, it still wont boot... here's what it says when it tried to boot:

"remove media and press any key to reboot"

Anyone know what this means and how to fix it?

roberts

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Posted: May 05 2005,18:01

The critical file is usually ldlinux.sys. You might want to try using the syslinux command to rewite/restore this file.

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Posted: May 05 2005,23:10

Hmm, I tried using a DSL cd to boot from and then I used the syslinux command to remake the file... It still says the exact same message tho... Is it possible I need to adjust the geometry?

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Posted: May 05 2005,23:29

What does fdisk or sfdisk -l show as the current geometry?

If you can wait a few days, I am about to have a major update to the "install to pendrive" supporting both usb-hdd and usb-zip booting and no "higher" math needed. Since the "install to pendrive" downloads the install script, eveyone should be able to have the benefits without a new iso being created.

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Posted: May 06 2005,13:31

Hmm, I got the error message wrong... It says "remove disks or other media, press any key to reboot" when it's about to boot the OS. I think the drive is at fault since it says this even when the usb drive has been freshly formatted... I'll see what sfdisk has to say when I get home in a few hours, as I'm at work now.

I'm looking forward to the script btw... it sounds good.

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