[olug] Best Brand for Bootable USB Thumb Drives

[Rob Townley]

On 9/10/07, Dan Clough <dclough at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My SanDisk 2GB Cruzer works just fine on my MacBook Pro (the problem is
> that the MBP doesn't allow USB boot... a boot CD fixes that though).
> I've run SLAX and Ubuntu successfully on that drive, not to mention it's
> very rugged and has held up to my constant abuse (physical and
> file-wise) for the last two years.
>
> Rob Townley wrote:
> > Recently, i took another stab at making bootable USB thumbdrives and had
> > mixed luck.  Most would not work at all on any machine.  Some would
> work,
> > but only on some machines.  Since i need to buy a set of these, i would
> like
> > to stick to one brand that is known to work well. Anybody have a
> > recommendation on a brand that is known for being more boot compatible?
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Are you saying that you must first boot from a CD such as SysRescCD or
SmartBootManager which then allows you to choose to boot from a USB stick?
i would not say that works just fine if the CD drive dies.