I read the mailing list archive about Gigabyte motherboards not working
with USB booting ("[syslinux] Gigabyte recent bios & syslinux extlinux
trow USB-IDE bridges or pendrives", 16 Aug 2006).
I have a Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H motherboard that I tried to boot in
USB-HDD mode with a PNY boot pen. I installed System Rescue CD on it.
It would appear that Gigabyte still doesn't support booting from USB
with Syslinux. I did boot BartPE (Windows based boot loader) from the
same usb key without issues on the board. There are no bios updates for
my motherboard.
My question: Has anyone successfully booted from a USB key chain drive
with Syslinux and a Gigabyte motherboard?
Rodney Beede
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 01:09:34AM -0500, Rodney Beede wrote:> I read the mailing list archive about Gigabyte motherboards not working > with USB booting ("[syslinux] Gigabyte recent bios & syslinux extlinux > trow USB-IDE bridges or pendrives", 16 Aug 2006). > > I have a Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H motherboard that I tried to boot in > USB-HDD mode with a PNY boot pen. I installed System Rescue CD on it. > > It would appear that Gigabyte still doesn't support booting from USB > with Syslinux. I did boot BartPE (Windows based boot loader) from the > same usb key without issues on the board. There are no bios updates for > my motherboard. > > My question: Has anyone successfully booted from a USB key chain drive > with Syslinux and a Gigabyte motherboard?At least several months ago with GA-P35-DS3R booting SYSLINUX worked fine with Transcend JF110 1GB partitioned as follows: Disk /dev/sdd: 1048 MB, 1048576000 bytes 32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 * 1 1014 1022080+ 6 FAT16 However, GA-P35-DS3R is an Intel chipset motherboard, and the USB storage support module in its BIOS might be completely different from the implementation for the AMD 790 chipset. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/attachments/20080920/ae287a02/attachment.sig>
Rodney Beede wrote:> I read the mailing list archive about Gigabyte motherboards not working > with USB booting ("[syslinux] Gigabyte recent bios & syslinux extlinux > trow USB-IDE bridges or pendrives", 16 Aug 2006). > > I have a Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H motherboard that I tried to boot in > USB-HDD mode with a PNY boot pen. I installed System Rescue CD on it. > > It would appear that Gigabyte still doesn't support booting from USB > with Syslinux. I did boot BartPE (Windows based boot loader) from the > same usb key without issues on the board. There are no bios updates for > my motherboard. >It would be *extremely* weird if every Gigabyte motherboard had problems. Most likely it is limited to a relatively small set of motherboards. The fact that you can boot BartPE, however, is illustrative; it does seem to mean that there is something that can be used as a fulcrum to make these things boot. The question is how to find it. I'll have to think about possible attack avenues. I presume there is no USB-ZIP mode. -hpa