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Sure, there may be identification problems, but in the OP's case here, it seemed to be specific problems with syslinux/Knoppix. In your case, are you unable to boot ANYTHING from the USB ports? In that case, using GRUB on the internal hard disk to boot the USB devices could be a kind of poor man's solution. With Knoppix, I think it could work very well. If you just get the kernel and minirt started, it looks anywhere for the KNOPPIX structure. I remember I did such things some years ago, before USB booting became more predictible.
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Well, I had a similar problem with my computer at the office. It's an old computer, but the bios has several options for USB. No joy. Since I had created the USB yesterday at home using the very good and extensive directions in the wiki here on knoppix.net, I figured that the problem might be the computer. It wasn't a very informative error: boot error. Bah! So I came home and plugged the USB drive into another old computer and reconfigured the bios to boot from USB. It booted up fine, and I'm running off the USB right now using Iceweasel and typing this reply. It really works! In both cases I had picked USB-Zip as the device... there are other choices. The only difference in how I picked was that the office box, where it didn't boot right, had the choices set in the bios as: 1. cdrom 2. USB-Zip 3. hard drive This box, where it works, has the bios boot seq set as: 1. USB-Zip 2. cdrom 3. hard drive I'll try again tomorrow or later this week and see. Maybe that will make a difference. If not, then I'll try different USB ports. At least now I know that the USB drive is, indeed, a bootable USB that works.
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