boot from USB on Shuttle

[Wade Smart]

Well, Im finding that booting from usb is not very reliable (on this pc).
Its only about 1 in 8 times can I get it do it.

Wade
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On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 16:44, Wade Smart<wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> The bios sees it as a hard drive but the setting is only usb-fdd,
> usb-zip, usb-floppy.
> I read on the shuttle forums that there have been problems booting
> this shuttle via
> thumb drive. You have to go into the bios, go to hard drive priority
> and put the
> thumb drive at the top, reboot and then you'll get in.
>
> Wade
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> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 16:39, Fred Roller<froller at tnclimited.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 10:33 -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
>>> Third boot device - usb-fdd
>>>
>>
>> This is looking for a usb - fdd (aka floppy drive).  Does your bios
>> offer usb - device?  The options I normally see are:
>>
>> usb - hdd
>> usb - device (thumb drive, etc)
>> usb - fdd (floppy)
>>
>> Earlier you mentioned a successful boot when you disconnected both hdd's
>> and forgot the thumb drive.  What did the bios see the thumbdrive as?
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