jazzgossen Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I have installed Ubuntu Linux to a Corsair Flash Voyager GT 4 GB stick, but when I try to boot my computer, it won't boot from the flash drive. It stops before I get to the bootloader installed on the stick. I have previously done another Ubuntu installation on an ******** Rally 1 GB stick, which worked well, except for the lack of space. When I run that installation, I can look at the Corsair stick and see all the files. Is there anything about the Flash Voyager GT that is different from other sticks, such as the ******** Rally, that could prevent it from being bootable? And there seems to be some weird filtering going on with my text here, so the stars in the text above should be pronounced "oh see zed". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 10, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 10, 2008 The USB controller may be seen as a Firmware Hub by your computer and as such would need to support that. But I would check the BIOS of the system and see what it detects it as ( USB HDD or USB Floppy) and then try changing the properties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzgossen Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 Thanks for your comments. I have Phoenix Award BIOS. The first boot device is USB-FDD, followed by Hard disk (which I have none) and LS120 (whatever that is). Under Integrated Peripherals, I can change the USB boot settings to Auto, HDD, or FDD. It was previously set to Auto. On this BIOS screen, the stick is identified as "Corsair VoyagerGT 1100". If I change from Auto to HDD, the same thing as before happens. I get to "Verifying DMI pool data...." and then it says "Failed to load operating system". The other stick also fails when using the HDD setting. When using the FDD setting, the other stick works, and I get some other results with the Corsair stick. Once it got to a strange DHCP promt, saying something about "Intel UNDI PXE-2.0". Other times, it just stops without an error message after "Verifying DMI pool data". I'll try reinstalling an OS onto the Corsair stick and use it again with the FDD setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzgossen Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 Another update. I haven't reinstalled to the Corsair stick, but I tried booting my desktop computer with it, and that worked! So apparently, it's neither the stick's fault or the operating system installed on it (since it works with my desktop computer), nor the target motherboard (since that works with my other USB stick), but the combination... So, if I have set the USB boot mode to FDD and have USB-FDD as first boot device, and it still doesn't work -- is there anything else I should do on the target computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 10, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 10, 2008 That would suggest a BIOS issue with the failing system in that it can boot from or to a USB HUB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzgossen Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 Indeed it was. After loading the fail-safe BIOS defaults and re-enabling only enough to get TV output and the on-board USB controller working, the Corsair stick boots as well. The Linux installation on it would go into a kernel panic at first, but after re-enabling APIC mode on the CPU, it works just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 18, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 18, 2008 OK Great and thank you for letting me know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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