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ga-ma790ftx-upd5 wont boot from usb

ga-ma790ftx-upd5 wont boot from usb
« on: August 09, 2012, 04:05:53 pm »
i have a server with a ga-ma790ftx-upd5 motherbaord. its OS boots from a flash drive set up with syslinux. i decided to try different software on a different flash drive but when i try to boot of it, after the mobo verifies the dmi pool is says "invalid partition table". the strange part is it boots just fine in another machine. ive tried setting up the flash drive again but have determined that there is nothing wrong with it. it has to be a mobo thing. anyone got any ideas? i updated the bios and the "legacy usb boot" option is enable and set to boot from usb-hdd.

talby

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Re: ga-ma790ftx-upd5 wont boot from usb
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2012, 06:25:36 am »
had a similiar problem w/ my GA-970A-UD3 - I had to use unetbootin to make my bootable linux USB under FAT32 until the BIOS saw it was a USB-HDD.

Since you have syslinux I believe that is FAT32 as well - pretty common w/ Gigabyte boards and problems with linux-native USB filesystems...

hope this helps, cheers

Re: ga-ma790ftx-upd5 wont boot from usb
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2012, 03:44:12 pm »
Ah. just looked and noticed that this flash drive (as well as an identical one) doesnt show in the BIOS, but other flash drives do. WTF?