Hi Michael,
You wrote:
> At 02:48 PM 2/9/2005 +0100, Robert Urban wrote:
>
> > >
> > > USB-ZIP is generally documented on the net as the most compatible one to
> > > choose for USB flash drive booting. It's the only selection that works
> > for
> > > booting my USB stick here. But mine does boot up as a large A:, which you
> > > might not find acceptable.
> >
> >I assumed that USB-ZIP was for Iomega zip drives attached by USB. In any
> >case,
> >I tried it, with results identical to USB-FDD and USB-CDROM -- it ignored
> >the USB-stick.
>
> Not sure why you're having so many problems, although I admit that I hand
> punched in a few values in the boot sector to make sure mine
> booted. What's the brand and size of your flash drive? If I see one
> locally and its cheap enough, maybe I'll grab it and see if it's bootable
> here. When first reading up on the subject on the net, I saw a passing
> comment of some flash drives being unbootable, although that could have
> been operator error, of course.
from /var/log/messages:
Feb 9 03:55:51 noisy kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: Memory Key Rev:
3.52
Feb 9 03:55:52 noisy kernel: SCSI device sdb: 499712 512-byte hdwr sectors
(256MB)
on the stick it says:
FC CE
MADE IN CHINA
ASM 22P9027
FRU 22P9031
2004APR26
cheers,
Rob
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