So that is unusual. I used to work for an OEM white box vendor and we used this board in a few builds. we booted to USB frequently. One of my roles at the time I was there was to vet machines for Linux compatibility. The irony was that this board did just that with very minimal issue. I have found in the past some Sandisk USB devices do not play nicely with booting Linux OS's. Also, check your USB drive size, If it is a 16G or larger the bios may not play nice. As for viable software to write the drive, I have had the best success with using Rufus for Windows-based install drives. I use etcher for Linux based install media. Note, My most successful USB installer drive is a USB 2.0 Verbatim Store N Go. On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 1:58 PM Jim wrote: > I've got a computer with a Gigabyte P35-DS4L revision 1 motherboard in > it. The boot options include USB hard drives, but it won't boot from a > USB thumb drive. It will boot from an optical disc. Can someone tell > me how to make a boot CD that would then point to a USB thumb drive? I > don't want to have to go back to burning dozens of boot discs. > > I looked online and found many references to Gigabyte boards not booting > from USB. I found many people who had the same problem, and some > solutions for revision 2 of this board, but none for revision 1. > > thanks > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen