![]() ![]() Make a folder called boot in the root directory of the pen drive. Plug in the drive and make sure it has a file system, format it if it doesn't. ![]() After all, it takes a mere 170KB, I could install a regular OS in this thing (4GB pen drive). I could have probed the matter a bit more, but then I decided to install a GRUB in my pen drive. I couldn't locate it neither in the motherboard manual, nor in the BIOS itself. I did try looking for a way to disable USB booting, but to no avail. Now you might say I could simply set the SATA drive as the preferred hard disk for booting, but once you remove the drive, and the BIOS detects that it is missing, it no longer keeps a track of the flash drive, plug it in another time and it tries to boot from the flash drive. ![]() Unfortunately, each time I plugged it in, the flash drive became the default hard disk, since it apparently had priority over SATA disks for booting. As this was intended to be a pen drive and not an MP3 player, it supported USB booting. About a month ago, I finally bought a flash drive (a 4GB one) for myself, to replace the antique 256MB MP3 player. ![]()
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