On Sunday 25 October 2009 00:30:48 Philip Webb wrote: > I've got my new toy to boot from USB with SystemRescue 1.3.1 , > which comes up beautifully with Gentoo using 'Altker32' > (the 'default' kernel boots into some kind of emergency mode); > despite what the intro help says, the desktop manager is Xfce, > which is started via 'wizard' & offers basic useful apps, > eg Terminal Emelfm Firefox Geany Gparted .
I let it boot the default system, which seems fine to me as I don't need a GUI when I'm booting the rescue system. > There's 1 problem : you hold F2 down to get BIOS, > then use Esc for a boot menu (you have to go in/out of BIOS first). > However, this doesn't work when I first switch the machine on : > M$ XP starts regardless & I have to reboot from there to get BIOS, > the boot menu & the USB (I've disabled 'quiet boot' in BIOS, > but POST msgs still don't appear). Is this because it takes a few seconds > before the USB stick warms up & gets recognised (its light blinks) ? There's an accelerated-boot option in the BIOS. You have to switch that off to be able to boot a USB stick (unless you can find the few milliseconds that the BIOS is listening to the keyboard). Took me days to find that one :-( -- Rgds Peter
