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[911CD.net]

Hi there,

I have a special situation here. I installed Windows XP using BartPE on my 8 GB USB Stick. Followed all the instructions from pe2usb.txt, everything worked fine. The only difference between the instruction guide and myself: I had to format the stick with NTFS due to it's capacity. The bootsector I needed came from the repair console of my existing Windows XP installation (I am running Ubuntu Karmic Koala and Windows XP & 7 under Sun Virtualbox). The repair console recognized the USB stick as a normal drive, I wrote the bootsector using "fixboot e:". I don't think that this has anything to do with my problem, I just wanted to be true and to point out what I did exactly. I also got the ramdisk and other files from the Windows Server 2003 SP1 installation files and added them to my BartPE installation.

Until now everything works fine. When I connect the stick to my Acer Aspire 5610, the stick is booting and everything is fine. But when I connect the stick to my 2004 Pentium-IV 2G6 Hz Desktop, the machine is not recognizing the device during the boot process (=Ubuntu is starting thereafter, following the BIOS boot devices list).

So I think that it is a BIOS problem of my old desktop PC (Magny-Cours Opterons are still so expensive, sic!). I noticed that the BIOS entries differ from the entries of my laptop's BIOS. On my desktop PC I solely have the entry "USB-RMF" as boot device, while I got several more USB devices options on my laptop (USB Disk, USB Drive, USB Flash or so). So how can I "help" my desktop PC to boot from USB? I think a workaround via 3"5 floppy disk could be an option.

Guys 'n girls, how can I set up a floppy boot disk that just kicks in the basic boot system and then hands over to the USB stick? The USB stick is recognized at all - this is not the problem. I can read and write data without any problems when Ubuntu (installed on the harddisk drives) is booted. I think the PC just needs a handover between booting from floppy disk and the data on the USB drive.

I hope this hasn't been discussed too many times before. I searched the forums, but I couldn't find a topic with exact the same problem. I just need a floppy disk workaround for this old donkey of a PC. :sorcerer:

Thank you a lot
rgds Christian



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[cragunkurtis25]

maybe a msdos disk or cd free dos free dos iso page

of for floppy drive dos boot disk page
and see if you can access the usb drive and launch from the command prompt

[MedEvil]

Search for >Plop< here in the forum.
This is what you're looking for.

[Wonko the Sane]

Hey peeps , wasn't it clear, these posts coming from 911CD are a nice* RSS feed that duplicates whatever new threads started on 911CD here on boot-land, replicating here ONLY the first post of the thread.

The chances that the OP will ever read your comments equal exactly to 0%.

Basically you have two "productive" choices:

• reply to the OP on it's original thread here:
  http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=23772
• ignore these threads coming from 911CD

Wonko

*nice means new, up-to-date, cool, in the same way as "making a video of it" is.

[MedEvil]

Thanks for the info jaclaz. Didn't knew. Obviously!

@Nuno
Please have a look at Wikipedia what news are. People asking for help surely not!

[Wonko the Sane]

Thanks for the info jaclaz. Didn't knew. Obviously!

You are welcome , it's not your fault, noone made a video to explain it.


Wonko