[Bio-Linux] USb stick booting

[Tim Booth]

Hi Enrique,

Sorry you are having trouble making the USB sticks.

The error you are seeing suggests that you made the USB sticks on a
machine with an older version of Syslinux, but then you say that regular
Ubuntu 12.04 works OK, so I may be wrong.  What happens if you type
"live" (without the quotes) at the boot prompt after the error and hit
return? (note you will need to have the keyboard connected in such a way
that it is visible to the BIOS, not via a USB hub).

Cheers,

TIM

On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 09:37 +0100, Enrique Ortega wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I have been trying to use a home made Memory stick to use Biolinux 7
> on a live system to show it to my peers (and initiate them to the
> awesomeness of bioinformatics).
> So far, in different computers (old and new) and memory sticks created
> with different computers, the system wont boot. Once I modify the boot
> menu to boot from the usb key, it blocks immediatly after and shows
> the following lines:
> 
> 
> "SYSLINUX 3.63 Debian-2000-05-15 EBIOS copyright (C) 1994-2008 H.
> Peter Anvin
> Unknown keyword in configurtation file.
> boot : "
> 
> 
> In the same computers in which the boot blocks, the live system from a
> memory stick for standard releases of ubuntu (10.04 and 12.04) and
> other systems works OK.
> 
> 
> I haven't tried the boot from CD, since some of this computers have a
> broken CD tray.
> If I can help to fix this, please let me know.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Enrique Ortega-Abboud, PhD student BGPI-Cirad
> Monptellier, France
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> The contact from the website is broken too
> (http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk/contact-info) here's the error:
> Error
>         Unable to send mail: SMTP AUTH extension not supported by
>         server.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cordialement
> 
> Enrique ORTEGA-ABBOUD
> Mobile : 06.49.61.10.08

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