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On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:29:00 -0700 (PDT), trewornan wrote: > > Sunday I had a computer meltdown and had to install Ubuntu from a USB > stick - I tried with a KingMax 4GB. I like these because they're the most > compact I've come across and fit nicely on a keyring. I was going to leave > it on this stick so I could use it anywhere/anywhen in future. But I > couldn't get it to boot. After trying a lot of other things I eventually > tried again using a Kingston Traveller 2GB job and it worked perfectly. > > I can't explain this: before I loaded the KingMax up via Unetbootin I set > it up as a single FAT32 partition and marked it bootable same as with the > Kingston. The only odd thing I can find is that the KingMax although it > says 4GB actually the partition (which as far as I can see covers the > entire memory) says 3.8GB. Is it possible there's some peculiar proprietary > partitioning that isn't apparent under normal usage. > > Any suggestions? I've had problems like this with drives that come with "U3" installed on them. Once this has been removed the drive seems to work like a bog-standard USB storage device... unfortunately when I needed to do this last I hadn't found a way to remove U3 from within Linux. U3 have a removal tool themselves, but it has to be run from within Windows. Also, make sure that you are using a partition on the drive. Although you *can* create a filesystem on the entire disk (ie sda rather than sda1), it really isn't a good idea... alas, some pendrive manufacturers seem to still do this! Blat it, partition it, format it, unetbootin it! Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html