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Posted: June 09 2004,02:22 QUOTE
Hmm, I will soon be trying to multiboot my disgo USB2 device, and it USB-HDD has so far only worked for my DOS. Something non-standard must be happening, as booting in DOS seems to take over the BIOS 0 device (int 80 or something, I haven't looked into it, anyone knows?), but at some point this breaks, and I can't get either /dev/sda or /dev/hda to boot. I most definitely want to multiboot as I have a couple of machines where BIOS updates and stuff like that should take place with DOS, and then it's a great way to carry a couple of specialist linux minis. I'm really posting to find out what people think about good old loadlin: since DOS is defacto bootable, you reckon I could bypass other troubles by setting that up? Of memory serves right it could work nearly as well as grub or something, eg by boooting into a menu.bat. Comments?
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Posted: June 09 2004,12:16 QUOTE
Your BIOS may have the ability to boot and treat USB mass storage devices (like thumbdrive and USB HDD) as if they were real hard drives.

This may cause problems with USB detection in DSL.

Try creating a USB boot floppy and disabling the USB Boot/Storage support in your BIOS.  It might work.

Good Luck.
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Posted: June 22 2004,19:56 QUOTE
well i do not have a floppy drive is there anyway to copy the contents of the floppy image to my usb drive without a floppy
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Posted: June 23 2004,01:37 QUOTE
It would not be possible to bypass the BIOS USB boot without using a boot floppy.

If you try to use the floppy image on your USB drive, you are then stuck in a catch-22 situation.
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Posted: July 01 2004,10:27 QUOTE
Quote (charleswong @ May 14 2004,23:01)
This error "Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem,sorry" is common. I faced the same problem. I also noticed that some guys in the KNOPPIX forum encountered this problem as well.

I had this problem too. I solved it by modifying linuxrc inside miniroot.gz. The script scans devices /dev/sdx0-9 where x is a letter from a-z I guess. But my system recognizes the usb stick as /dev/sda without the number.  Added this to linuxrc and worked like a charm.
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