On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Phil Mullane<[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I've had some luck. I was able to get unetbootin installed and load a
> distro to the USB (when I check the USB properties I can see the distro). I
> was never able to get a distro to install from a USB, but that may be my
> home computers not being able to boot from the USB. In a separate
> experiement, I found that "elive" has a special program to load elive to a
> usb. I did that and took the usb to work where I have a newer computer and
> it booted there absolutely no problem. In fact, it happened so fast I
> missed it. But I think it booted without going through the usual loading.
>
> My question now is: so far, on my home computers I have been going into the
> boot menu and clicking on usb to be first in boot sequence. This hasn't
> worked so far. Then I went into BIOS Setup and put usb first in boot
> sequence. That didn't work either. There is another BIOS setting (other
> than boot sequence), called HARD DISK DRIVE. The choices there are: 1)
> "System BIOS boot devices" and 2) "USB Device". I am able to switch the
> order so "USB Device" is first and "System BIOS boot devices" is second, but
> I thought I better run it past you guys first. I'd hate to do it and find I
> can't boot from the USB and I can no longer get into BIOS to switch it back
> to "System BIOS boot devices". Should I leave HARD DISK DRIVE alone? Or
> should I change it to "USB Device"
Certainly if your BIOS is like most, you can put USB device first, and
if there is no USB device present the BIOS will go on to the next in
the list.
Can't you get to BIOS setup without booting anything?
Are you by any chance able to come to tomorrow's Linux Lab and BBQ?
See posting by Gus Wirth for details.
carl
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