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gboy13



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:32 pm    Post subject: boot failed Reply with quote

Using a 1gb usb drive i installed usb-hdd from vmware and dsl-n boots fine on my house machine but when I take it to school I set up the bios to boot from usb and when it trys to boot it gives the error "boot failed" and I hit enter and it just boots up windows. How do I make it bootable from the school computer or fix the error?
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Juanito



Joined: 11 Sep 2006
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Location: Dubai, U.A.E.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:59 am    Post subject: Try This Reply with quote

You could try:

1. Format the USB stick with one FAT32 partition.

or

2. Format the USB stick with two FAT16 or two FAT32 partitions, the first of which is <512MB.
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gboy13



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

you can't format because once you start the usb-hdd install it automaticly makes 1 partion but using the usb-zip it worked on my school computer because it made 2 partions.
but I also use windows and the zip partion makes 900mb of my drive unreadable by windows because it only supports tumb drives with 1 partion so I would like to try and find another solution to usb-hdd booting.
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roberts



Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some computers can boot USB-ZIP style and some computers can boot USB-HDD. Seems like school is the first style and home is the second.
And BTW only XP limits you to seeing only one partition.

Another option is to stay with USB-HDD for home and use the cdrom to boot to USB on school computers. Unless they have locked that down.
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gboy13



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I could boot at school with the cd but then I could not save my settings or is there a way to save the settings on the usb drive and reboot with the cd to those settings?
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Juanito



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:40 am    Post subject: Use Restore Cheatcode Reply with quote

I believe that by default, DSL-N will try to restore settings from sda1.

If your USB stick is connected when you boot from CD, DSL-N sould try to restore settings from the USB stick. If for some reason, your USB stick is not sda1, you can boot with the cheatcode restore=sdb1 or wherever your USB stick appears.
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gboy13



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yea it is sdb1 but how do i get it to backup to sdb1?
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Juanito



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:00 am    Post subject: Use Control Panel Reply with quote

Use the DSL control panel, click on backup/restore and enter sdb1.

Next time you boot from CD, enter the cheatcode restore=sdb1
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