On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:48 AM, C <smaug42@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 17:14, Myrosia Dzikovska wrote:
I've been following this thread.. a bit puzzled... have you:
1. Plugged in the USB stick before booting the EEE 2. Booted the EEE and pressed F2 during the boot sequence to go into the BIOS 3. Set the USB device as the first hard drive 4. Pressed F10 to save and boot again (this is the process I follow on my EEE and it works every time)
1. I plugged in the USB stick before booting the EEE 2. I booted EEE and pressed F2 on boot 3. This is where the failure comes: the USB device does not show up as a hard drive.
There are reports of this floating on the internet, and people seem to think that the reason is file system type: EEE bios does not recognize anything other than FAT16 or FAT32 at boot time (though it is fine with other file system types it once the kernel is loaded). Hence my question about whether it is possible to easily change the file system type on the live USB stick
Here's one of the threads mentioning the fs type problem: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=43611
Interesting. I've done a lot of installs on various EEE models without problems. A friend of mine had a 901 and installed openSUSE on it multiple times (he was experimenting a bit before committing his main machine) and he didn't have issues.. *except* the first USB stick he used caused him problems. His solution.. use a different brand of USB stick. There was something odd about that particular USB stick that didn't play well with the 901 hardware. It was one of those free stick you get at trade shows etc... the replacement that worked was a branded one from a computer shop.
This may or may not be the same issue here... but I've done installs on 901s before using USB and had no issues... so it's def possible for at least some versions of the 901 series. As for your specific issue... if I was troubleshooting I'd try a dif USB stick just in case that's the source of the issue.
Alternatively, do you have a spare USB drive you can use to install? Installing from USB drive or USB stick is essentially the same procedure... just one device is bulkier than the other.
C.
I don't know if it could be an issue, but I recently had a situation where the boot flag in the partition table wasn't set and therefore the PC refused to use the external drive. After setting that flag all was well, but this was NOT a EEE. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org