NASLite Network Attached Storage

I just bought NASLite+ 2.0 USB, and it wont boot..

I made the USB stick, and I had to make the USB Kicker floppy...
As the ABIT KT7A I have does not support USB booting...

This is what it says:

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ASPI Manager for USB mass-storage Version 2.06

**** Entering Slow down mode ****

Controller: 00-07-2 VID=1106h PID=3038h (0925h-1234h) UHCI
I/O=E400h-41Fh
Controller: 00-07-3 VID=1106h PID=3038h (0925h-1234h) UHCI
I/O=E800h-E81Fh
USB Device : HOST [00-07-2 VID=1106h PID=3038h (0925h-12347h) UHCI
^-- nothing
USB Device : HOST [00-07-3 VID=1106h PID=3038h (0925h-1234h) UHCI]
.... Scanning USB Devices ...

ERROR : Target USB device not found.

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New screen

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NASLite+ for USB Flash Auxuliary Boot Utility v1.0 (c) 2005 Server Elements
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LINLD v0.97
Kernel command Line:
root=/dev/ram0 rw
Can't open kernel file
A:\>_

The USB memory stick is a InnoDisk DU Card 128MB

Sticker on the back say: FA1M128B7131-RE1-5D19


Now I have tried this on both the USB ports on the back of the computer...

Any ideas?

Just FYI: I have a similar but older MoBo ... ended up using an old "junk" USB 1.1 PCI card ... then it booted fine from the USB drive.

yeah I had that 'brain fart' after I posted the original post, and it works now via the kicker disk.

Shame I have to use the kicker disk, but TBH, in adding the 5 port USB2 card, I can now add 4 more USB2 hard drives

Thing is, can I add them on the fly like hot-swap, or do I have to turn off, and turn back on the system?

And does it use/can it use USB memory sticks as additional storage ? ie the 1-4 gig usb2 memory sticks?

How did you create the USB Flash - Superfloppy or Partition?

Hi Sanjiyan,

The KT7A does infact boot from the kicker, I done this last night.
I used the standard kicker supplied with v2.

USB is turned on in the bios?

if not it could be your flash device. try the other kickers that use different drivers and you may have some success.

I have tested this out and used a usb pen as storage. format set to RW and reboot.

No hot-swap support. It's a file server - pulling drives offline without proper dismount is something you can get away with only on a desktop.

I have the USB thingy working now, I just added a USB v2 adon card (5 ports, 4 external 1 internal) and it finds it from that, I think the USB ports on the motherboard are blown so



Any idea why no details are found for the following:

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI):

FAN STATE COOLING MODE THERMAL STATE CPU TEMP


POWER BUTTON is listed as available, all the others are UNAVAILABLE... is it my motherboard is that old, crud, shafted or otherwise shagged.. it wont see anything?

Linux ACPI support is pretty new, all things concidered, so many boards are not fully or at all supported. The details that you listed are made available by the interface only if found in the /proc. If those items are not foud in the /proc, then the board does not support the option or the board ACPI implementation is flawed and not properly handled by Linux.

Ahhh OK, just I can see CPU temp and Fan speed etc in the BIOS, but not on the system, the system displays my hard disk temps which is nice

We've opted to limit ACPI support to the absolute default kernel support. Of most interest to us is the power button support. The rest was a “might-as-well” but not a target during development. Specialized board-specific settings are possible, however that is not of primary importance in NASlite and is considered out-of-scope.

Take a look here for more info on ACPI and Linux: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php

Getting a kicker floppy to work on a MB that won't support USB boot can be a trial-and-error process requiring buying/borrowing several different USB sticks until you find one that works.

From the display you are getting, I think the kicker floppy is seeing your USB ports but not identifying the USB stick itself. That's the same error that I got with USB sticks that didn't work.

I have NASLite-2 USB (and NASLite+ USB before it) running on a Shuttle AK31A Motherboard that won't support USB boot, but I've gotten it to work with a kicker floppy.

(Note: The kicker that came with NASLite-2 works, but the process of polling for USB devices is VERY slow. I've found that the Iomega kicker floppy is much faster and cuts a minute or two off of boot time.)

The problem is that I've found only ONE USB stick out of five that I've tried that will work -- a PNY Attache.

PQI Intelligent Stick, SanDisk Cruzer Micro, and Memorex TravelDrive U3 (even after uninstalling U3) wouldn't work. I think I also tried a SanDisk Cruzer Mini unsuccessfully as well -- can't remember for sure.

I'm sure there are others that will work, but after spending a bunch on tiny USB sticks that don't work with a kicker floppy I'm just going to use the PNY even though it sticks a mile out the back of the computer.

jgsouthard,

You can speed up the original kicker simply edit the config.sys and remove the vebose and slow flags i.e. /v /slow there are other flags but i cant remember what they do, maybe speed up detection?

Great info, thanks.

What is the SLOW FLAG and what changes by removing it?