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Story: Ubuntu "Stick" Blues - or USB for shortTotal Replies: 0
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vainrveenr

Oct 29, 2009
10:41 PM EDT 		There is also a USB stick issue found in older BIOS's that is described in the Syslinux Project's 'USBKey' text document http://syslinux.zytor.com/doc/usbkey.txt
Quoting:The proper mode to boot a USB key drive in is "USB-HDD". That is the ONLY mode in which the C/H/S geometry encoded on the disk itself doesn't have to match what the BIOS thinks it is. Since geometry on USB drives is completely arbitrary, and can vary from BIOS to BIOS, this is the only mode which will work in general.

Some BIOSes have been reported (in particular, certain versions of the Award BIOS) that cannot boot USB keys in "USB-HDD" mode. This is a very serious BIOS bug, but it is unfortunately rather typical of the kind of quality we're seeing out of major BIOS vendors these days. On these BIOSes, you're generally stuck booting them in USB-ZIP mode.

THIS MEANS THE FILESYSTEM IMAGE ON THE DISK HAS TO HAVE A CORRECT ZIPDRIVE-COMPATIBLE GEOMETRY.

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