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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: LMP on April 24, 2011, 03:38:51 am
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I have been playing around with Linux Live CD which is basically an operating system that runs from a CD so you can try it with out installing anything to your hard drive.
I burned the disk image to a CD and tried it and it worked.
Next I wanted to try booting from a USB 3 stick in a USB 3 plug on the mother board.
I followed the Linux live CD instruction to make a USB boot drive on a FDD USB stick, everything went fine the computer could see the USB stick, all the files coppeid over fine, no problems.
I then changed the first boot device to the USB-FDD in the BIOS and rebooted but the computer boots to the hard disk no matter what.
I looked at all the settings in the BIOS but cant find any other settings related to changing the boot device.
I appreciate any help i can get.
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Hi
It is probably because the USB stick isn't being seen by the BIOS.
Firstly set the BIOS to boot from USB HDD not FDD. Enable Legacy USB Devices in the BIOS.
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I set the BIOS to boot from USB HDD and Legacy USB Devices Enable was already set correctly to enabled but still nothing.
I even tried plunging it in to other USB plugs but still not working.
Anything else I can try?
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I plugged my USB stick into my other computer and it works, boots to Linux and it's much faster then a CD.
My other computer has an ASUS motherboard.
I have tried everything I can think of but nothing works on my computer with the GA-790XTA-UD4 motherboard, help!
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It seems that some USB drives have a problem being seen by Gigabyte boards. I have noticed this when using them for BIOS updates. Usually the smaller drives work better but I have used large (16GB) drives without any problem.
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My USB stick is an ADATA 8GB and is USB 3.0, I was hoping I could get it to work so I could see how much faster USB 3.0 is but looks like I am out of luck.
Also I just tried it on my little net book and it works on that as well.
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Does the drive work alright in the OS as opposed to being booted from ?
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The USB drive shows up with the other drives in Windows, I can format it, copy files to it and I can run scan disk on it with no errors showing up so I assume it's working OK.
I can plug it in to any USB port on any of the computers and do all the stuff above so I know all USB plugs work OK.
I know the Linux works because I can make a bootable CD with it and it works on the machine in question.
I should have mentioned that I am using Windows 7 on the machine with the GA-790XTA-UD4 motherboard and Windows XP on the other two computers.
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You are using the USB ports on the back of the motherboard rather than the front ports or an external USB hub aren't you ?
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Yes the two USB plugs on the back next to the Ethernet connection are USB 3.0 and that is ware i have it plugged in.
I can read and wright to the stick in Windows plugged into any USB connection on the machine.
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I am afraid then that I can't help much more. Personally I would feel it is a BIOS issue but it could be hardware.
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Are systems even able to boot from USB3.0 sticks?.The problem here may be that the stick was written to as USB-FDD as opposed to USB-HDD. Make an image of the Linux live CD, then use software such as UltraISO to write the image to the USB stick as a bootable HDD. In hindsight I believe there is a size limit to FDDs. Which linux live CD is it, I'm willing to try all this myself to help you out of this situation.
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I could be wrong but perhaps that particular linux distro does not support USB 3.0 as bootable. I know that I can't boot Backtrack off of any USB stick that is plugged into a USB 3.0 port on my computer. I also have a diffferent mother board though. I am pretty sure it has more to do with USB 3.0 support from the linux distro.
Try another one.
Ubuntu is a good one...Mint is pretty cool as well.