Booting Puppy from Pen Drive

[Polish Rifle]

I have spent the majority of the day with Puppy 4 installed and I love this little OS. However, it has been giving me some trouble. Of my four computers, it only boots on one through the pen drive, even though I have the BIOS's set correctly.

Currently, I'm trying to get it going on my main computer and I have been fooling around in GRUB to write the code for it. Not happening...I can't figure out what hard drive the flash drive is and I probably have some wrong language in the text file.

My hope is to be able to carry Puppy around on my key chain but it isn't even booting up on the majority of computers I try it on, which is a bummer. Wakepup is a good idea but I don't want to carry around a CD/Floppy everywhere. Any suggestions?

[cthisbear]

Tried different ports etc on your computers.

Back ports often work better then front ones .

Tried it on a different USB?

Redo the USB...and format it through the Universal installer.

On the Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows forums many users have had
similar problems.

Some dearer USBs may be better then others and certainly
vice versa is also true.

Take out or turn off USB printers.

Some forums even suggest setting hard drives as Master
and not cable select.

Experiment or exterminate I say.

http://www.jeffbots.com/daleks.html


Some reads...
probably won't help but they might alleviate the pain.
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Jaclaz and dietmar are quite the smarties :

http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/Grub4dos.htm

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Welcome to the USBoot homepage

http://www.usboot.org/tiki-index.php?page=Home

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Grub4dos Guide

http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/Grub4dos.htm

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" Your hybrid method works great for me, and just for records I said that 1243 files version are used (really I own both files versions).


Btw1: all this I've done with two UFDs with Removable Bit flipped by Lexar BootIt utility

http://files.filefront.com/lexar+usb+fo ... einfo.html

and then seen from XP as Fixed Disk.
I like Lexar tool because it solves BIOS issues related to UFDs booting compatibility (at least on my two machines)...

Btw2: please, can you kindly post (if possible) the text related to three INF files (USB, USBSTOR and USBPORT) in order to make me sure that I modified them in a right way? (However, my XP from UFD with your method works fine, then probably all was done right!) "

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21445

[Polish Rifle]

Thanks a lot man. I believe you're right when you say to experiment which is what I've been doing. It's a long process but very rewarding. Thanks for the info and links.

[Polish Rifle]

Has anybody had any luck booting from a pen drive while using Windows XP Service Pack 2. I went on USBoot but they only support SP3 and up. I guess I don't even care if it's from a removable device. I just need Puppy on my laptop.

[Jaybekay]

My laptop has XP SP2 on the hard drive and I am online using Dingo booted off an old flash drive. This flash drive works on every computer I have tried it on... well except for the ones that don't support booting from USB.