Elitebook 8460p only boots from two specific USB sticks

My Elitebook 8460p boots perfectly normally from HDD but will ONLY boot from two specific USB sticks - 1. A Windows Recovery USB and 2. A Parted Magic USB stick which is a commercial partition recovery/imaging utility - it will NOT boot from ANY OTHER USB stick at all.It'll boot from a CD/DVD. What I would like to know is why it won't boot from any other bootable USB stick at all other than those two?

That is because the other usb sticks you have tried have not been made properly bootable. Check the partition type on the sticks that work. Do they have a uefi partition or are they just MBR partitions that are active? Use Windows own disk management snapin to investigate the usb sticks.

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Hi.
You simply can't. Snow Leopard is compiled in Intel binary only.
Good Luck.

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In the past, I have often made use of OS X's ability to boot from an external USB device. Before installing major OS updates, or new productivity software, I usually clone my system drive onto an external USB drive using Superduper or CarbonCopyCloner. Once the clone is complete, I can then boot from the external drive (by holding Option at startup, and choosing the cloned image from the boot disk menu). This has been incedibly useful in the past when I've had hard disk problems, or when I've upgraded to a new Mac.
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Fair enough. I'll give that a try as a last resort.
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To that end, do you know of a way to get a replacement disc? I bought my machine at the store, I wonder if they'd be willing to copy one for me...

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and now it begins to **bleep**in up
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Yes i did try to get the temp info from lm-sensors but did not get any cpu temp info or fan info.
I can tell that the Fan dont work at all running Linux !
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106474
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"Actually, USB II is faster than FW 400."
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ewaller wrote:... Even a fully loaded machine (512MB) would be of little (if any) use
Really? I have a netbook with a total of 1G, and I never get anywhere close to using even half of that. Certainly this depends on the programs used - but for terminal only, 512MB would be more than enough IMHO. On my 1GB, I boot into X with a simple WM, and can use lightweight (but fully functional graphical) web browsers like luakit and dwb without getting anywhere near half RAM use.
If it is just 128MB, I agree that may be more of a problem. I wonder if Slitaz is still going - that was my favorite "micro" distro, but I have not kept track of the development in some time.
As for the main problem of the thread, I've reread your OP a couple of times, but I'm not sure I'm fully clear on your steps. First, unetbootin is expected to not work for arch. Have you made an iso using `dd`? Can you boot other live cds or usbs on the machine? In other words, is it a limitation of your hardware, or have the isos you've tried for arch just not worked yet?
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I was wondering if someone could help me with a problem I've been trying to tackle for the last few days. I have a 24" iMac 2.33 Ghz Dual Core, with 2 gigs of RAM. A couple of days ago my computer crashed, and when I tried to boot up again I got the infamous grey screen kernel panic message ("You need to restart your computer..."). What's worse is that I get the same message when I try booting from my external drive and the installation disk itself.
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