Thanks Noli and Daniel,
I've updated the wiki with some of your tips here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Quick_Start_for_USB
It would be great if you could add a "Trouble Shooting" heading
underneath if you have extra information that you think is appropriate.
On 15/08/10 16:15, Alex Mandel wrote:
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
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