USB-boot

[mwmalex]

Hello!
Please, somebody help. I`ve got 2133 FU346EA. When I load bios and try to change "first boot device" I don see the issue like "USB-boot". There are only "hard-drive" and "ethernet-boot". I wonder if it is only my bios version does not support USB-boot or all of "FU346EA" doesn`t? If there is some twiks? Or I sould ignore this thing and just plug my USB-stick in while booting and every thing goes as well? Many thanks!

[steveb625]

I just read in a recent thread (I think in the XP forum) that the UBS boot drive (CD or stick) needs to be inserted before boot-up to be recognized. I have not tried it yet but its worth a shot.

[azotyp]

Yes I tried it and you have to connect a usb device like pendrive for example to set that option.

[mikez]

The BIOS only does device discovery once, during its start up - -
If the device isn't connected when that happens, it can't be discovered and can't be shown on the menu.

This isn't the days of the pc-xt, with a maximum of two floppy disks and one hard drive - -
(a small enough number of devices that they *could* all be hardcoded in the boot order table).

[mwmalex]

Many thanks! That worked!..
Actually, the problem appeared because I try to use USB-flash player like simple USB-data storage. Apparently this thing can not be recognized. But when I insert even both USB-data traveler and SD-card BIOS see them suggesting to boot from already four sources. They just need to be inserted before BIOS boot-up. That’s good...