On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 13:53 +0200, rainer herrendoerfer wrote: > Hello list, > I'm not really shure if this is a real GRUB problem, but to me it looks > like. I tried to install Debian on an USB pendrive attached to an MSI > K8T Neo2 mainboard with GRUB, but on reboot the MSI BIOS (AMI version > 3.3) moans >>no bootable device detected<<. > The odd thing is: in all cases another board was able to boot the pen > without any problems. Even dd stage 1 and 2 onto the stick was useless. > BUT: I put a FreeBSD on the same stick and whithout any changes this > Bootloader was recognized imidiately and booted without any problems. > I tried LILO as well, didn't succeed either. > Does anybody have experience with that board? > Tricks, tweaks?
Did FreeBSD format the drive differently? Many BIOSes won't boot a USB Storage device unless its geometry and partitioning are identical to those of a ZIP drive. That is, 64-heads, 32-sectors per track, and a primary partition as #4. -- Peter _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub