Re: Booting from USB Stick
- From: Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:29:01 +0100
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:45:29 +0100, "Gordy"
<gordy.laptopSP@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is it possible to change how your pc sees a bootable usb stick? An old stick
i used to use appeared as a usb stick in bios so i just added it to the top
of the boot device order and never had to go into bios again.
After spending a whole day trying to work out why my new stick dosent boot i
discovered that its seen as a hard drive. So everytime i want to boot from
it i have to go into the hard drive submenu in the boot order bios screen
and put it at the top. Then after ive finished put the boot order back to
normal, its dead anoying.
So to summarise, can i change how the bios sees the stick via the formatting
method or is it to do with the usb sticks interface chip?
It's down to how the stick IDs itself when plugged into the bus. One
of my boxes here has the same habit - if I accidentally boot with a
stick in, it rejiggers the boot device list and then complains that
the devices hae changed again on the next boot...
Does your BIOS have a "press F1 for BIOS, F12 for boot options" type
thing? That seems pretty common these days.
Or you could stick a bootloader onto your primary hard drive, GRUB or
something, and give yourself boot options and timeouts like that.
Cheers - Jaimie
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