Booting from USB (flash drive)

[Moo]

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

[HTM|Minion]

Did you try the "USB-ZIP" option?

[Moo]

Meh tried them all. I'm guessing my BIOS doesn't support it.

[HTM|Minion]

Me thinks if your bios didn't support it there would be no boot option for USB.

[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.

[cUnNiNg_StUnTs]

I have an MSI motherboard with the same BIOS settings and I can not boot USBs

[Moo]

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.

BLANKED OUT

[HTM~Par]

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.

[HTM~ZenEye]

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.

[HTM|YellowDog]

Do people still use Vista?




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