Re: cannot boot from usb
[email protected] Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:19:50 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.etherboot.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Ofcourse you are right, i feel a bit stupid now! But still no = luck........ it doesn't boot from the harddisk anymore but I get a = black screen and nothing happens. Quoting Thomas Miletich <[email protected]>: > Hi > As far as I remember, the .usb image is supposed to be written to the > entire usb drive, instead of a partition on the usb drive. You can > either use the .hd image type and write it to sdb1, or use the usb > image and write it to sdb, instead of sdb1: > > sudo dd if=3Dgpxe-1.0.0-sis900.usb of=3D/dev/sdb > > Please keep in mind that this will destroy the current partition table > and any filesystem that may be on the usb drive. If you want to keep > the filesystem, you may be interested in instaling syslinux or grub on > the drive and use the .lkrn image type. > > Thomas > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:33 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I use Ubuntu 10.04 >> >> >> I downloaded an usb image from http://rom-o-matic.net/ and wrote it to u= sb: >> >> sudo dd if=3Dgpxe-1.0.0-sis900.usb of=3D/dev/sdb1 >> >> I changed the bios to boot from the usb but it doesn't work. It goes >> to the next boot device (harddisk). I'm sure I changed the boot order >> in the bios correctly. >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------ >> ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate >> GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the >> lucky parental unit. =A0See the prize list and enter to win: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo >> _______________________________________________ >> Etherboot-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/etherboot-discuss >> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Etherboot-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/etherboot-discuss > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate = GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the = lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: = http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo