[plug] ELS1000 / EPIA V bios USB boot gotcha

Stephen Boak sboak at westnet.com.au
Sat Aug 23 10:36:39 WST 2003


A quick note on the EPIA V series motherboard in the ELS1000/3 (and
other mini ITX boxes):

If you are trying to boot/install from a USB cdrom like I did, it
won't work, even if you enable USB in the bios unless - you also
enable the USB keyboard! No, you don't need to USE a USB keyboard,
just turn on the option!

The fix for this is to download and apply a bios update, which I have
done. I don't have the version numbers or the URL to hand, but it
won't take long to find if someone needs to know.

BTW, antother gotcha: even if you can boot from USB cdrom, you still
won't be able to intall from it unless the distro boot kernel
supports usb-storage, and unfortunately Debian Woody 3.0 R1 doesn't :(

Steve



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