[aklug] Re: Not too happy with Gigabyte right now

try:

install-mbr /dev/yourusb

and make sure your first partition is set to active boot in the partition table.

On 04/09/2011 12:30 AM, James A. Tweet wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 22:59 -0800, Christopher Howard wrote:
>> Okay, so I bought a brand-new Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H motherboard on the
>> premise that I could do USB boot. And right there in the BIOS is a
>> USB-HDD boot option... so I should be good to go.
>>
>> So, I get my USB stick (a.k.a. flash drive) that boots into Linux using
>> syslinux, which I /know/ works fine on two of my other (older) PCs. But
>> I stick it into the new PC with the Gigabyte board and it doesn't even
>> get as far as loading the kernel.
>>
>> Did some googling, and discovered this, as freaky as it sounds:
>>
>> http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/237445-30-boot-external
>>
>> Apparently, according to the last post in this thread, the USB-HDD boot
>> option /doesn't/ work on Gigabyte boards unless (get this) the USB stick
>> was formatted /under Windows/. Quote from the above-referenced thread:
>>
>> "Based on the testing I did tonight I'm fairly sure that the problem and
>> the solution are one in the same. Award must be using a Microsoft
>> provided MBR driver, or mounting system of some sort. So long as you
>> work with in that system your fine (by formating your sticks using
>> Windows). As soon as you step outside that box (with a new stick that
>> was formated via a UNIX or Linux system) your screwed."
>>
>> (See the last post in the thread for more details on his testing.)
>>
>
> Have you checked for a bios update?
>
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Received on Sun Apr 10 09:26:19 2011