Fwd: Can't boot 8.0-BETA4 from USB stick

[Randi Harper]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:37 PM, James Butler <sweetnavelorange at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/9/10 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net>:
> > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 23:45:00 James Butler wrote:
> >> I have tried on all the ports at the back of the box, but I just
> >> remembered there's another at the front which I will try this evening.
> >> What do you mean by "dummy USB device"? Just having something else
> >> plugged in at boot? I will also try another USB drive tonight.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
>
> OK, I tried all the available ports and various combinations of flash
> drives, all with the same result. I sometimes get this message from
> one drive:
>
> probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
> probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
> probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCS Status: Check Condition
> probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0
> probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have
> changed
> probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data)
>
> Is there anything else worth trying?
>
> Thanks,
> James
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It's worth noting that some USB flash drives (particularly old or
low-quality ones) take longer to detect than others, as was found with
sysinstall/USB installs. I don't really know of a way around this other than
using a different USB flash drive.

-- randi