[ubuntu-uk] USB STICK

[Tony Arnold]

Ted,

Ted wrote:
> alan c wrote:
>> Ted wrote:
>>   
>>> Eddie Armstrong wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Ted wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> Do I have to edit any files on the usb stick after I have installed Ubi
>>>>> to get the stick to boot ?
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>> I would have thought just check the BIOS - enable boot from USB device
>>>> I'm sure someone will let us know if I'm wrong
>>>> Eddie
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> Thanks for the reply..I have the boot enabled in the bios and I can run 
>>> both dsl and puppy from the stick but no matter how I try I cannot get 
>>> any other Linux to boot from the stick...
>>>     
>> I found that with a stick initially formatted to fat16, it would not 
>> work with ubuntu (facility in 8.10 that is) It went perfectly or 
>> seemed to, but  in the event, it would not boot.
>>
>> However, If I pre formatted the stick fat32, then went through the 
>> process, it always worked. This was with two sticks, both failing and 
>> then success, and with two machines, to eliminate machine type.
>> It may be that the smaller distros are more careful to work with fat16 
>> maybe?
>>   
> Thanks for the reply.
>   I have tried with the stick formatted ext2 ext3 fat32 etc but all fail..
> I am currently d/loading yet another Ubi and then will try the manual method
> again moving all the files by hand....

Where is it failing? I've just tried on this on a 2GB USB stick
formatted to fat32. I get the boot menu, but when I try to start the
live system I end up in BusyBox! I've tried this on both my laptop and
my home desktop, so I'm guessing it's a problem at the USB stick end.

Any suggestions as where to go from here? Has anybody got this to work
completely?

Regards,
Tony.
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