Hi Cameron, I guess nothing wrong laptop usb BIOS, just familiarity how to setup the boot sequences - plug'nplay BIOS.
Probably you can add Unetbootin in the wiki as well. I find it easy to use and a lot advance features. You can even created you own "live hard" in one of your drive partitions. http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ BTW, you can also boot Live OS SD in laptops now. Noli On 8/16/10, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Noli and Daniel, > I've updated the wiki with some of your tips here: > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Quick_Start_for_USB > > It would be great if you could add a "Trouble Shooting" heading > underneath if you have extra information that you think is appropriate. > > On 15/08/10 16:15, Alex Mandel wrote: >> Ah, crazy that's totally it. The usb device must be in when I go the >> BIOS settings, and a new option showed up in the Boot area to order the >> Hard Drives. >> >> Removable Device != USB stick >> >> So strange, thanks for the hint. It works fine now. >> >> Alex >> >> On 08/14/2010 11:06 PM, Daniel Kastl wrote: >> >>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > > -- > Cameron Shorter > Geospatial Director > Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 > Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 > > Think Globally, Fix Locally > Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source > http://www.lisasoft.com > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
