Ah, crazy that's totally it. The usb device must be in when I go the BIOS settings, and a new option showed up in the Boot area to order the Hard Drives.
Removable Device != USB stick So strange, thanks for the hint. It works fine now. Alex On 08/14/2010 11:06 PM, Daniel Kastl wrote: > My first bios settings for boot order failed, because I moved the "removable > device" up in the boot menu order, but surprisingly this wasn't my USB > stick. > The USB stick was listed under hard drives option, which showed a "+" and > contained a list of drives including the USB drive. I had to move it up to > be booted before the main HDD. Then it worked. > > Daniel > > > > 2010/8/15 Alex Mandel <[email protected]> > >> On 08/14/2010 05:35 PM, Noli Sicad wrote: >>> Hi Cameron, >>> >>>> Ideally we would have liked to distribute on a USB to all delegates >>>> however out of the 5 or so computers tested, we've had reports of at >>>> least 2 computers which can't boot from the USB. So we will distribute >>>> OSGeo-Live to all delegates on the well tested DVD version. >>> >>> These laptops / desktops have faulty Windows BIOS. They need DSDT >>> patching to boot Linux OS and Darwin OS (Mac OS X). Using IASL, you >>> can decompile the BIOS i.e. dump DSDT.dsl. then patch it and compile. >>> Use dsdt.aml to boot usb linux os. >>> >>> Top of the list for faulty BIOS is HP Pavillion laptops. >>> >>> I got HP Pavillion DM3 which I have been patching inorder to triple >> boot. >>> >>> The solution to create various version of OSGeo Live USB for these >> laptops. >>> >>> 1. HP Pavillion >>> 3. Dell >>> 2. Asus >>> >>> BTW, what are the brand of those computers which did not boot? >>> >>> I could help create these OSGeo Live USB to work properly with these >>> laptops, if you are interested and provide the resources i.e. 4Gb / >>> 8Gb USBes, OSGeo ISO and dsdt.aml from those not booting laptops. I >>> will patch it. I can pick these things in your Melbourne office, if >>> you are interested. >>> >>>> However, if we can get test results from enough people by first thing, >>>> Monday 16 August, an OSGeo-Live USB will be created and given to VIPs. >>> >>> Regards, Noli >> >> I'm not sure that's 100% right. My Asus is failing to boot from usb, and >> I do think it's a BIOS issue but it has nothing to do with the OS. The >> laptop is a linux box only, it seems to just never try booting usb even >> though it's in the list. >> >> Also making multiple versions of the usb sticks depending on the laptop >> brand is unrealistic, if that's what it takes to make it work 95% of the >> time or better we're going to have to stick to mostly DVDs for this >> release. >> >> Thanks for the info, I'll have to poke into that more. >> >> Alex >> _______________________________________________ >> Live-demo mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
