plop boot manager on floppy - usb boot problem

[adq]

Hi!
I have old notebook that doesn't support usb booting and have also damaged optical drive. It's based on intel 440/440BX chipset.
So I tried launching plop boot manager from floppy and then usb boot GParted on my 4GB Kingston usb stick formatted as FAT32.
However, it hangs on "SYSLINUX 4.06 EDD" and won't boot.
Usb stick is booting correctly on other computer which natively supports usb booting.

Please help, you are my only hope to bring back my notebook to live.

[Elmar]

hello,

try the plopkexec floppy image
http://www.plop.at/en/plopkexec.html

regards
elmar

[adq]

Thanks! I will try and reply with status update in the evening.

[adq]

I booted plopkexec, selected to boot GParted default.
It showed "Starting new kernel" for a while and then screen goes black.
Floppy drive LED is lit on, but I don't hear sounds of floppy readng.

[Elmar]

strange

insert the floppy with the plop boot manager. try to force to boot in usb 1.1 mode.

use shift-u in the main menu to force usb 1.1 and see setup/bootmanager for 2 usb 1.1 modes.

[adq]

It randomly hangs on SYSLINUX, no matter which mode or if used shift+u hotkey or not.
Sometimes it prints just SYSLINUX 4.06 EDD and hangs.
Sometimes more including:
*********************
GParted.
...
Use at your own risk
*********************
One time it passed SYSLINUX screen, then screen goes black and computer hangs.

Maybe there is issue with notebook itself?

[Elmar]

i don't know. you should try another live linux