On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:12 PM, David King <linux...@avoura.com> wrote:
> I created a USB startup disk successfully, using Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 CD > ISO and a 16 GB flash drive. > > But my PC will not boot from it. I tried 4 different options for the > first boot device: USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, USB-HDD. None allowed it > to boot. All that happened was that it got as far as "Verifying DMI pool > data..." message, and then froze. So it seems that it is reading the USB > flash drive, but it will not boot from it. > > What could be wrong? > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > One of my flash drives (sandisk cruzer) shows as a standard (non-usb, internal) hard drive for boot purposes. I have to tell my motherboard to boot hdd first and make sure the flash drive is the first hdd. Another drive of mine (pny attaché) shows as USB-zip and wont boot :( Are you sure the motherboard is recognising the flash drive as a USB device at all?
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