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On Sunday 25 October 2009 00:30:48 Philip Webb wrote: |
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> I've got my new toy to boot from USB with SystemRescue 1.3.1 , |
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> which comes up beautifully with Gentoo using 'Altker32' |
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> (the 'default' kernel boots into some kind of emergency mode); |
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> despite what the intro help says, the desktop manager is Xfce, |
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> which is started via 'wizard' & offers basic useful apps, |
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> eg Terminal Emelfm Firefox Geany Gparted . |
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I let it boot the default system, which seems fine to me as I don't need a GUI |
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when I'm booting the rescue system. |
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> There's 1 problem : you hold F2 down to get BIOS, |
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> then use Esc for a boot menu (you have to go in/out of BIOS first). |
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> However, this doesn't work when I first switch the machine on : |
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> M$ XP starts regardless & I have to reboot from there to get BIOS, |
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> the boot menu & the USB (I've disabled 'quiet boot' in BIOS, |
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> but POST msgs still don't appear). Is this because it takes a few seconds |
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> before the USB stick warms up & gets recognised (its light blinks) ? |
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There's an accelerated-boot option in the BIOS. You have to switch that off to |
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be able to boot a USB stick (unless you can find the few milliseconds that |
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the BIOS is listening to the keyboard). Took me days to find that one :-( |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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