[Simply Computers] Re: USB booting

 

Searching the web it appears that your particular model shows up frequently with USB boot problems. You may be SOL.

Before you give up, I found a list of options for booting from a USB. Might help...

http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

--- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "a4f4ah64" <a4f4ah64@...> wrote:
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> I have a Sony VAIO VGN-FS742/W laptop and have only been able to boot to USB with a UBCD4WIN kicker cd with UBCD4WIN on the USB flash drive.
> So far after setting the BIOS I have been able to boot other computers to USB without a kicker CD. I have booted Lucid Puppy, Knoppix, DSLinux, Ubuntu and a host of other Linuxes on other computers but this Sony only makes the flash-drive light flash on and off then boots to the hard-drive. I have even setup a Sony VAIO desktop to boot to any of 5 OS's on the hard-drive or the USB with no problems.
> Is there such thing as a BIOS mod to boot to USB?
> I have used the Rom.by bios patcher to make an old computer recognize a larger HDD but it is not for the bios in the Sony VAIO.
> Thanks in advance.
>

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