Boot from Usb Key

Peter L. Peres plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 23 14:11:37 UTC 2004


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Tim Writer wrote:

> <jon.dmml-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:
>
>> I have a 512 MB Lexar JumpDrive Usb Key and I would like to load a
>> Live-Cd linux onto it so that I can access my own portable linux
>> wherever I go. However, i have found that my computer doesn't seem to
>> be so friendly in booting from Usb Drives. The option is available but
>> when trying to boot from a version of Damn Small Linux, it doesn't
>> seem to work. I can go into more detail, just ask for more
>> information. Help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> I have found that a _lot_ of systems (even some very new ones) won't boot
> from USB, even if the BIOS has such an option.  In addition, some boards will
> boot other USB devices (floppy, CD-ROM, etc.) but not a key.  This seems to
> be a geometry issue which can sometimes be worked around by installing
> another mbr.  Debian has an mbr package which contains DOS/Windows compatible
> MBRs.  This allowed my notebook to boot one USB key (new 256MB Sandisk) that
> was previously unbootable.  Another key (older 64MB), required installation
> of spb2_mbr.sec from spblinux.
>
>    http://www.8ung.at/spblinux/

Fyi my disk on key came with a windows utility to make it bootable. Check 
if you can make a bootable usb disk on key (windows rescue disk) using 
that before giving up. It may produce the necessary modified mbr.

Peter
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