Hi,
I've installed a Linux distro (openSUSE) on a 8 GB Transcend USB key. It boots OK on a recent laptop (whose BIOS allows booting from USB).
To boot it on an older laptop, I made a PLoP bootmanager floppy. The floppy drive is a USB one. PLoP starts OK. Then I plug my key in the other USB port, and hit Ctrl-Shift-U. PLoP detects the Transcend device. Then I hit enter and I'm taken back to the console screen with a bit more than a linefull of periods, with the blinking cursor, and nothing more happens.
FWIW, here's the partition table cfdisk sees on the USB key:
First Last
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flag
-- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------- ----
1 Primary 0 48194 63 48195 W95 FAT16 (LBA) (0E) Boot
2 Primary 48195 2152709 0 2104515 Linux swap / So (82) None
3 Primary 2152710 15679439 0 13526730 Linux (83) None
(There are two other views available but I think this one is the most relevant.)
Thanks for your help.
hi,
can you post the "lspci -v" output of the machine?
regards
elmar
Quote from: Elmar on April 12, 2010, 20:48:54 PMcan you post the "lspci -v" output of the machine?
Thanks for answering.
The older laptop has no Linux installed. I'll have to boot a rescue system DVD. It might be in a few days, so maybe you could tell me now what kind of info you're after, and other commands to run depending of what lspci will give.
the dmesg output is also interesting
Had a question but figured it out.. :-)
Seems I can't delete my comment/post but I can change it to this..
Sorry about that.
Quote from: michiganbroadband on April 14, 2010, 17:31:42 PMHad a question but figured it out.. :-)
Got it by email... Nice to see you figured it out, that proves I expressed myself well enough to be understood ;)
Quote from: lev on April 13, 2010, 10:56:29 AMI'll have to boot a rescue system DVD. It might be in a few days, so maybe you could tell me now what kind of info you're after, and other commands to run depending of what lspci will give.
:'( My DVD-ROM drive refuses to read the openSUSE install DVD from which I wanted to boot a rescue system. (Booting from CDROM directly via the BIOS menu yields some kind of "bad media" message, and trying to boot via PLoP gives a red "CDROM error".)
Do you know any Linux floppy distro containing lspci? (The few I found up to now only have dmesg.)
Quote from: lev on April 15, 2010, 10:12:20 AM
Do you know any Linux floppy distro containing lspci? (The few I found up to now only have dmesg.)
no
are you sure its a dvd drive and not only a cdrom drive?
Quote from: Elmar on April 15, 2010, 10:17:03 AM
are you sure its a dvd drive and not only a cdrom drive?
It's labeled DVD-ROM. This model: http://www.ultradrives.com/product_info.php/cPath/3_28/products_id/119
Well, I found this which is able to probe PCI devices: Hardware Detection Tool, http://hdt-project.org/wiki . Tell me if it's enough or if you really need Linux's lspci.
I had to copy data by hand, so I wrote down only the parts which looked relevant to me, but still I listed all the devices reported by HDT. (blanks mean I didn't copy the given value, it's not necessarily empty)
Manufacturer Class Name Location PCI ID IRQ Latency
ALi Corporation Host bridge M1644/M1644T Northbridge+Trident 00:00.0 10b9:1644[0000:0000]
ALi Corporation PCI bridge PCI to AGP controller 00:01.0 10b9:5247[0000:0000]
ALi Corporation USB controller USB 1.1 controller 00:02.0 10b9:5237[1179:0004] 11 64
ALi Corporation IDE interface M5229 IDE 00:03.0 10b9:5229[1179:0004]
ALi Corporation Multimedia audio controller etc. 11
ALi Corporation ISA bridge 10b9:1533[1179:0004]
ALi Corporation Bridge M7101 pow. man. controller
Intel Ethernet 11
TI Cardbus bridge
Toshiba Cardbus bridge
Toshiba Cardbus bridge
Toshiba Sys. peripheral SDtypA controller 11
Trident VGA compatible controller 11
Any thoughts, Elmar? :-\
i released a new version. can you try it.
Quote from: Elmar on April 23, 2010, 10:14:05 AM
i released a new version. can you try it.
Whoo hoo hoooooooooooooo, that works!
I'm posting this from my USB Linux ;D
BTW, the version that didn't work was 5.0.4-2 (I think I downloaded it a while ago, but only recently had I time to post here).
Thanks a lot!
Cheers,
L.