Puppy won't boot from USB memory stick

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TWPup
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#21 Post by TWPup »

[quote="cthisbear"]You are not using a usb 3.0 device are you?No

You are only usb 2.0 capable.

Try another port to boot Already tried that.

Or boot Puppy from a cd, get to the desktop, insert the usb and check
with Gparted your usb.
Select only >>> USB
See if LBA and Boot are ticked for your usb. It was flagged Boot and is now flagged for both.

As I have installed the OS to harddrive, I rebooted, selecting USB where the stick is shown in the Grub bootloader, but an error message gives file not found .
It is recognised and on the desktop when booted from HD and shows all the Puppy files.
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#22 Post by TWPup »

[quote="Les Kerf"]I have had good success using the PloP Boot Manager on PC's that do not normally allow booting from USB.
/quote]

TX but I am at my knowledge limits so don't wish to explore further into this as i would be asking for too much help.
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#23 Post by bigpup »

You stated your bios only offers these boot device options for USB.
USB-zip, USB-CDROM, USB-FDD
Nothing there for a normal USB flash stick.

Your only option is to try making it apear as one of these to the bios.
If you want to still try it.
I told you how to do it in an earlier post.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
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#24 Post by 6502coder »

I can boot from a USB 2.0 flash drive on my 2003 laptop, but the flash drive does not show up as a USB device. Instead, for whatever reason, the BIOS sees it as a hard drive, so when changing the boot device order I have to go into the hard drive section to find it. Maybe you have a similar issue?
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#25 Post by TWPup »

bigpup wrote:You stated your bios only offers these boot device options for USB.
USB-zip, USB-CDROM, USB-FDD
Nothing there for a normal USB flash stick.So I guess the board was not made for USB stick boot-up.

Your only option is to try making it apear as one of these to the bios.
If you want to still try it.
I told you how to do it in an earlier post.
I had already tried using the USB flash installer and that is how I came to have boot option set as USB-FDD

I can live without the facility to boot from stick, so thanks all, but it is not worth your time & effort to pursue this.
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