[syslinux] USB boot problems on Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message <52D9E590.6090702 at zytor.com>, 
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

>On 01/17/2014 04:36 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> 
>> To answer your question...
>> 
>>     *) with respect to Ultimate Boot CD (5.2.7), the answer is "CHS".
>> 
>>     *) with respect to OpenELEC (3.2.3, I think), the answer is "CHS".
>> 
>
>OK, it is "CHS"... which most likely means this is a geometry problem.
>Bleh.  The one thing one can do with these is trying to find the "magic
>geometry" that works on that machine, which may be 64/32 for example.
>However, in CHS mode 1024x64x32 is only 1 GiB, and you might not be able
>to boot from sticks that are bigger than that.

I don't pretend to understand any of this, so whatever you say I am
more than happy to accept without question.  (I do not have enough
knowledge to have any opinion of my own whatsoever on these matters.)

>Ah, it is an Award BIOS isn't it...

Yes.

Boot time message says "Award Modular BIOS..."


Regards,
rfg