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Booting from USB on a Via Epia M Board

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I’m posting this hopes of helping people who google this, because I just spent two fucking hours finding it out. Here goes:

If you have a Via Epia M (EpiaM, Epia-M) motherboard in your barebone computer, and you want to boot from a USB Stick or USB Hard Drive, you have to know three things:

  1. In the Bios, set the boot device to USB-ZIP
  2. Also in the Bios, activate the USB-Keyboard option
  3. Finally, before you plug in either a USB keyboard or your USB drive, remove the power chord of your barebone computer! Don’t just turn it off; in order for the Epia M to recognize a USB drive or keyboard, you have to completely cut its power before you plug either of these in.

Those were infuriating two hours yesterday evening! HTH

In the next days, I’m going to post my experiences and maybe even a HOWTO on creating a software RAID on Linux.

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8 Kommentare zu „Booting from USB on a Via Epia M Board“

  1. alf sagt:
    November 3, 2007 um 2:24

    Thank you so much. I was going crazy with this one.

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  2. Andreas Percher sagt:
    März 21, 2008 um 8:24

    This looks good, but didn’t work with my EPIA ML 6000 EAG LVDS board.
    Using a TrekStore 1GB Stick with Knoppix 5.1 on it.

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  3. Andreas Percher sagt:
    März 22, 2008 um 8:46

    Thank You,
    Now It works:
    USB-Keyboard OFF, Bootdrive USB-HDD.
    Booting works only if the power chord is removed.

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  4. baer sagt:
    August 14, 2008 um 1:32

    thank you… i needed more than 2 hours ;)

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  5. Richard A sagt:
    August 29, 2008 um 7:30

    I have an EPIA-M. I concurr with Andreas, removing power entirely is the solution. Otherwise you can change all the options in the world and it won’t make a difference.

    So to recap, for you to be able to boot from USB-CD USB-DVD and any other USB attached device, you MUST remove power (unplug the darn thing).

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  6. Roger sagt:
    November 8, 2008 um 1:07

    Wow, I can’t believe THAT was the problem. I had all the bios settings right and it didn’t work. I found your page, unplugged the power and IT WORKED. Thanks so much, it really helped a lot.

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  7. Samuel sagt:
    Februar 23, 2009 um 8:45

    I cannt belive that it worked, which has troubled me for weeks. Greate thanks for your execllent work, Awesome guy.

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  8. Frood sagt:
    Februar 25, 2009 um 10:16

    This hint is very very useful! I was going crazy, no wake on lan, power on keyboard was working! I spent hours to find out whats wrong.
    THANKS!!!

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