Flash Drive

[Gary P]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason L Tibbitts III" <tibbs at math.uh.edu>
To: "Discussion list about Kickstart" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: Flash Drive


>>>>>> "GP" == Gary P <list at akwebhosting.net> writes:
>
> GP> bascially back to square one....i've honestly tried everything and
> GP> cant figure it out I've done everything you stated and other
> GP> readmes and sometimes i get 'bootup failed' or like right now, it
> GP> just sits there likes its trying to load syslinux but doesnt go
> GP> anywhere
>
> On multiple computers, known to boot other USB devices?  Some machines
> just don't handle booting from USB very well.  I know that a simple dd
> of diskboot.img produces a flash device which will boot on several
> machines I have around.  Likewise, the same device won't boot on a
> couple of machines; these don't seem to properly handle a USB floppy,
> either.
>
> - J<
>
well these are pretty new machines and BIOS even sees the flash stick and 
its selectable as one of the pull downs of the HDD prioritys