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    Booting from USB (flash drive)






    Ok so I'm trying to boot from my flash drive into Kubuntu I've failed 2 or 3 times :\

    followed this http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-kub...using-windows/ It installed everything correctly to my 2gb flash drive so I'm wondering does my BIOS / CMOS / Motherboard support booting from the USB flashdrive because to me it seems like it just wants to go into vista. Ither I did something wrong or my flashdrive doesn't support this :\ EDIT: just tried FDD (fixed disk drive or floppy disk drive) Didint work
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  • #2
    Did you try the "USB-ZIP" option?
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    • #3
      Meh tried them all. I'm guessing my BIOS doesn't support it.

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      • #4
        Me thinks if your bios didn't support it there would be no boot option for USB.
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        • #5
          It might not support the boot loader version you have, like it might not like lilo or grub or whatever. You might need a msdos or generic cdrom/floppy boot image on there for it to mount and boot off the drive.

          google it.
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          • #6
            I have an MSI motherboard with the same BIOS settings and I can not boot USBs

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            • #7
              Originally posted by HTM~ZenEye
              It might not support the boot loader version you have, like it might not like lilo or grub or whatever. You might need a msdos or generic cdrom/floppy boot image on there for it to mount and boot off the drive.

              google it.



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              • #8
                Originally posted by HTM|Minion
                Me thinks if your bios didn't support it there would be no boot option for USB.
                Well it doesn't say boot from USB-flash. It says USB-FDD (assume Floppy Disk Drive attached via usb), USP-ZIP (ZIP drive attached via usb), and USB-CDROM (same as the others...just a cd drive). I would assume that it doesn't support USB flash drive booting.
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                • #9
                  Yeah what i was saying was get a generic CD or floppy boot image, it would be a small file that emulates a floppy or CD boot record. Also you might have to format it in fat16 for it to work. You have linux on a fat32 drive? Maybe you should format that drive from within linux and use one of its file systems. I bet there's even an app that will do what you want. http://www.linux.org/

                  There's got to be a way, there always is. My best guess is to emulate a floppy or CD boot image.

                  *EDIT: All that "create ms-dos startup disk" option does is copy 2 files to a floppy to make it bootable. IO.sys and MSDOS.sys, you might be able to make an actual floppy boot disk, then just copy those 2 files from the floppy to the flash. They are hidden files so you will need to have show hidden files enabled in windows. I have NO idea how to do that in vista lol.
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                  • #10
                    Do people still use Vista?




                    </end attempt to goat Vista users into tirades>
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