Cannot boot from Recovery USB

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Hi,

I bought a 1GB USB drive today (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=19911&vpn=PSF1GUSB&manufacture=Patriot) and try to create a recovery USB disk.

I put in the Recovery DVD and create the recovery USB drive, follow the instructions.

but when I try to boot from USB in BIOS (F12) it does not work, it showed BB BB BB BB........etc. Then it boot from my SSD again.

I tried this a few times, and it still does not work.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
 
Not all USB sticks are compatible. Buy another one or just use a 2 GB SD-card and SD-card reader.
 
I also got the same thing, so I repeat steps to create the USB.
At least it was works.
It was only use about 100mb of your Flash drive to be recovery USB.
Btw, I tried about 3 times instalation to get sucessfull.

:lol: he..he..... chayo.....
 
I have the same problem. I booted gOS space's live disk from the thumbdrive I'm using, so that much works, at least. I'm currently recreating the recovery drive. Let's hope it works this time.

UPDATE: No joy on 3 tries. I'm going to try a different thumbdrive.

UPDATE 2: Ok, so I was curious and tried it on a 128MB thumbdrive. The progress bar for the recovery drive creation utility only reached ~11%, but it still congratulated me on successfully creating my recovery drive. I booted from the supposed recovery drive and got the same results as before. So, you can't trust that utility.

I'm guessing that my first drive, which had a capacity of 984MB, was just slightly too small for the recovery drive to fit on. I guess I'm gonna need a bigger boat.
 
Ok, it's hours and hours later. I still have no idea what the problem is, but I can consistently boot using a thumbdrive created using this guy's procedure:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/03/13/usb-gos-install-from-windows/

This boots to gOS every time. I tried to replace the gOS files with the recovery DVD ones, but couldn't get everything connected together in a way that works. It boots to the Linpus boot options screen, but always fails at the same point: kernel panic due to vfs failing. VFS says that I need to supply a root= boot parameter. I tried root=hdc and root=hdc1. Neither did the trick.

I'm giving up. I'm just going to buy an external dvd drive tomorrow.

UPDATE: I got a Sony slimline external dvd drive and recovered off of the dvd. Note that I first bought an LG one that was powered by USB, but couldn't get the A1 to boot from it.
 
I ended up using a harddrive from a dead laptop in an external usb powered housing, couldn't get any pendrives to work, and an sd card in a usb reader hung every time I clicked 'next' from the recovery boot screen. The harddrive boot also hung at the same point, until I realised that 'tapping' the touchpad hangs the process, but left-clicking with the button worked perfectly!!!.

Keith
 
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