Puppy won't boot from USB memory stick

[TWPup]

[quote="cthisbear"]TWPup:
Just so you know..rcrsn51 and bigpup are top drawer people
for Puppy advice. Nice endorsement
Best give your computer specs.As stated--Foxcomm boardWinFast 760GXK8MCOperating System System ModelWindows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
Desktop
Processor a
1.80 gigahertz AMD Sempron
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
128 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Not hyper-threaded
Board: WinFast 760GXK8MC

BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 10/08/2005
Drives Memory Modules c,d
68.56 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
41.45 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

DVDRW IDE H16X [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

IC USB Storage-CFC USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
IC USB Storage-MMC USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
IC USB Storage-MSC USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 5
IC USB Storage-SMC USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 USB Device [Hard drive] (15.47 GB) -- drive 1, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD800BB-55JKC0 [Hard drive] (80.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WMAMD6039799, rev 05.01C05, SMART Status: Healthy 1504 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory


Just for completeness, but happy though to drop the query at this stage, but thanks to all.

[Les Kerf]

I have had good success using the PloP Boot Manager on PC's that do not normally allow booting from USB.

https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html

[mikeslr]

Follow up on Les Kerf's post. See this thread: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 084#653084 and particularly Les Kerf's post at the end. Note the distinction between plpbtin.iso and plpbt.iso: the former has the letters "in" in its name and is the one to use.

mikesLr

[cthisbear]

You are not using a usb 3.0 device are you?

You are only usb 2.0 capable.

Try another port to boot.

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.


Specs:

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/driverdow ... 1%5D.0.pdf

USB 2.0 Ports
zSupports hot-plug
zEight USB 2.0 ports (four rear panel ports, two onboard USB headers
providing four extra ports)
zSupports wake-up from S1 and S3 mode
zSupports USB 2.0 protocol up to 480 Mbps transmission rate

Chris.

[cthisbear]

Double post.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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?

[TWPup]

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.