Re: [gNewSense-users] How to boot from FSF membership card?

[Tor at Shared Genius]

Dmitri Gabinski wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have received my FSF membership card that is supposed to be bootable 
> with gNewSense on-board. However, I cannot boot. I have Celeron 1.2 MHz, 
> main board Gygabyte 6OXT (with Award BIOS v. 6.00PG), one hard drive, 
> one CD-ROM and one CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo, two USB ports. The card is 
> plugged into one USB port, and an EV-DO modem is plugged into the other 
> port.
>
> I tried the following boot device options in the BIOS setup:
> USB-FF
> USB-ZIP
> USB-CDROM
> USB-HDD
> SCSI
> HDD-1
> ZIP

Sorry about the basic (and perhaps even far-fetched) question, but it is 
the only thing that comes to mind.  Is it possible that your computer 
isn't truly trying to boot from USB?  In order to boot from mine I use 
the BIOS one time boot menu (F12 on my computer), not the BIOS setup. 
The boot order should not matter, because you are bypassing it 
altogether by doing this.
> None of the above works. The card seems to be operable: when I boot from 
> my hard drive, I see the card mounted as two volumes and can browse 
> them. I have tried to search Google but found no relevant information. 
> Is there something I could check or set up? Any ideas?

This sounds good.  If things really don't work I have an image of mine, 
from which I have booted I can give you the location of.  Link is also 
in the FSF Member Forums; my username there is Tor.

Tor
> Best regards,
>
> Dmitri Gabinski
>
>
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