My first bios settings for boot order failed, because I moved the "removable device" up in the boot menu order, but surprisingly this wasn't my USB stick. The USB stick was listed under hard drives option, which showed a "+" and contained a list of drives including the USB drive. I had to move it up to be booted before the main HDD. Then it worked.
Daniel 2010/8/15 Alex Mandel <tech_...@wildintellect.com> > On 08/14/2010 05:35 PM, Noli Sicad wrote: > > Hi Cameron, > > > >> Ideally we would have liked to distribute on a USB to all delegates > >> however out of the 5 or so computers tested, we've had reports of at > >> least 2 computers which can't boot from the USB. So we will distribute > >> OSGeo-Live to all delegates on the well tested DVD version. > > > > These laptops / desktops have faulty Windows BIOS. They need DSDT > > patching to boot Linux OS and Darwin OS (Mac OS X). Using IASL, you > > can decompile the BIOS i.e. dump DSDT.dsl. then patch it and compile. > > Use dsdt.aml to boot usb linux os. > > > > Top of the list for faulty BIOS is HP Pavillion laptops. > > > > I got HP Pavillion DM3 which I have been patching inorder to triple > boot. > > > > The solution to create various version of OSGeo Live USB for these > laptops. > > > > 1. HP Pavillion > > 3. Dell > > 2. Asus > > > > BTW, what are the brand of those computers which did not boot? > > > > I could help create these OSGeo Live USB to work properly with these > > laptops, if you are interested and provide the resources i.e. 4Gb / > > 8Gb USBes, OSGeo ISO and dsdt.aml from those not booting laptops. I > > will patch it. I can pick these things in your Melbourne office, if > > you are interested. > > > >> However, if we can get test results from enough people by first thing, > >> Monday 16 August, an OSGeo-Live USB will be created and given to VIPs. > > > > Regards, Noli > > I'm not sure that's 100% right. My Asus is failing to boot from usb, and > I do think it's a BIOS issue but it has nothing to do with the OS. The > laptop is a linux box only, it seems to just never try booting usb even > though it's in the list. > > Also making multiple versions of the usb sticks depending on the laptop > brand is unrealistic, if that's what it takes to make it work 95% of the > time or better we're going to have to stick to mostly DVDs for this > release. > > Thanks for the info, I'll have to poke into that more. > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > Live-demo mailing list > live-d...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc >
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