GA-990FXA-UD3 No linux usb key boot.

[mtruchado]

Hi

Under my opinion this is not only a gigabyte problem, but It is a generic 970 chipset problem. Many MoBos from other brands already offers bios updates that fix this USB problem, even gigabyte offers the fix for the model GA-970A-DS3P

http://www.gigabyte.de/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4591#bios

Version F2h

the question is, what happen with the others? i have here a brand new GA-970A-UD3P which is totally unusable because of this issue. I tried to sent it back for a RMA and I got as an answer that the MoBo Is fine. Sure It is!, but the bios is not :-(

[JGB123]

GA-990XA-UD3 won't boot from USB; a workaround.

    Problem:

    The GA-990XA-UD3 (rev. 1.x, EDIT: BIOS ver. F14b), and some other Gigabyte motherboards, won't boot from a fat32 USB flash drive formatted by gparted or Disk Utility but WILL boot from a flash drive formatted under Windows 7.

    A workaround (aside from formatting the USB drive in Windows):

    Format the USB flash drive to ext4 and use UNetBootin to turn the drive into a means of installing Ubuntu etc via the GA-990XA-UD3's USB 2.0 ports. The USB 3.0 ports (Etron Technology, Inc., EJ168 USB 3.0 Host Controller), though otherwise bootable, wouldn't boot from a flash drive prepared in this manner.

    The flash drive in question:

    16GB Supersonic Xpress USB 3.0 Flash Drive (PSF16GXPUSB)
    http://www.patriotmemory.com/product...d=1088&type=23

    (Output from lsusb):
    Bus 001 Device 005: ID 13fe:5000 Kingston Technology Company Inc.

    --

    I'd like to thank the participants of the following thread for doing all the heavy lifting re establishing the futility of attempting to boot some Gigabyte motherboards from a USB flash drive formatted to fat32 by gparted or Disk Utility:

    [all variants] Boot Error from USB
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1712675

[SOLVED] GA-990XA-UD3 won't boot from USB; a workaround.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2216937