Okey dokey, just a little update for you all.
Using the exact same flash drive, in the exact same USB port, I can setup Puppy Linux on it fine, and it boots and runs happy as Larry from the flash drive, so it is not a BIOS or perhaps my selected USB flash-drive issue.
Interestingly, once Puppy had installed itself to this flash drive, back in the board BIOS, the system can see the drive again, and so can boot from it fine, as it can see it there, I expect.
Most definitely some issue with NL2 installing/setup to USB flash drives. How many other members here, are using USB flash drives to boot NL2? Did any of you have issues getting NL2 to boot from USB?
Perhaps NL2 install is making the drive bootable and all that, but perhaps it is NOT setting the boot flag you tend to need to have set for USB drives to be seen as bootable?
I will try another experiment - I will install NL2 to the USB flash again, but then I will crank up Puppy Linux, and use Gparted to see if the boot flag is set. If it is not, I will set it, and reboot, and see if NL2 boots then.
EDIT: Nope, it IS bootable. Puppy says that the flash drive is fat16, and the boot flag is set, so it SHOULD be able to boot from it, but the fact of the matter is that it can't. But whatever Puppy does differently, allows this exact same flash drive to boot up fine, so something fishy going on here...
I will try another flash drive - I have a few old Trancend drives, so will try one of them, as it is a more well-known brand.
EDIT: Same old same old. Trancend drive(4GB) does exactly the same thing - "Boot error.", and BIOS cannot see the USB drive at all AFTER the install of NL2.
I will check for a BIOS update for this board, but I thought that NL2 did not really care much about BIOS settings, as it uses it's own drivers etc... I suppose that is true, but in order to do that, it first has to be able to boot...
EDIT: Just for experimentation, I setup FreeNAS on the flash drive - boots and runs fine from USB.
We definitely have some kind of bug in the way that NL2 is building it's bootable USB, cos other systems boot and run fine from USB, so it simply can't be the board or the USB flash drive, or these other systems would also not want to co-operate.
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