A7N8X deluxe v2 will not boot USB flash drive

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I have a Sandisk USB 2.0 flash drive that is formatted with Win98.
This flash drive is tested with an Intel 865G chipset. It will boot as
a floppy but remain as a HDD. For some unknown reason, the A7N8X bios
does not see the flash drive as a system disk. I have USB 1.1 and 2.0
enabled, USB legacy device enabled and I have tried USB ZIP, USB FDD
and USB CDROM. These option ends with a prompt to supply a system
disk. When boot is set to USB HDD, I get to a point where there is a
blinking cursor on screen and the system hangs. I also have a USB
mouse installed.

How do I boot from USB flash drive on A7N8X v2.0?

 

[Ben Pope]

I have a Sandisk USB 2.0 flash drive that is formatted with Win98.
This flash drive is tested with an Intel 865G chipset. It will boot as
a floppy but remain as a HDD. For some unknown reason, the A7N8X bios
does not see the flash drive as a system disk. I have USB 1.1 and 2.0
enabled, USB legacy device enabled and I have tried USB ZIP, USB FDD
and USB CDROM. These option ends with a prompt to supply a system
disk. When boot is set to USB HDD, I get to a point where there is a
blinking cursor on screen and the system hangs. I also have a USB
mouse installed.

How do I boot from USB flash drive on A7N8X v2.0?

I know it was an update in one of the BIOSes.

I have a Luwen Easydisk (DabsValue) and that boots (despite some
struggling).

I managed to get it recognised as a USB drive on POST, so I booted to a
Win98 bootable floppy, then copied over the bootable files (command.com,
io.sys etc) and did a sys x: y: where x is the source drive (probably a
and y is the destination.

Next boot - straight into a Win98 command prompt, took a fraction of a
second, I like.

(next job is to get it to dual boot a minimalist linux install for repairing
Linux

Ben