[plug] Strange USB Boot Issue

[Jim Householder]

  I have a Toshiba NB205-N210 netbook with a similar problem.
When booting from some (but not all) USB devices it regularly does not 
show the device in the initial boot menu.  However one of the menu 
options is to change BIOS settings.  I go into the BIOS and immediately 
exit, saving settings.  The computer reboots and lo-and-behold, the USB 
device now appears in the menu.

Perhaps this will work for you...

Jim


On 09/06/10 13:57, Scott Middleton wrote:
> I had a similar issue last week.
>
> I had to change the boot to usb-floppy or zip, forgot which one. 
> It wouldn't boot as usb-hdd.
>
> Scott Middleton
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> On 6 September 2010 12:01, Tim <weirdit at gmail.com 
> <mailto:weirdit at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Update.
>     Bios update. Still no change. The CD drive works (just) so I've
>     managed to get Lucid running off a cd. Still, any ideas why a Win 7
>     usb stick will boot, but a syslinux/isolinux/grub2 one won't?
>
>     Tim
>
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