USB came in corrupt :(

[vladsfl]

We are rookie team and received brand new Classmate and 2012 Image E11 - having same issue.. press F11 and it does not show USB key as a boot option.
I only see HDD and Lan adapter as boot options.
If I simply plug it into another computer it does not read it.

I see FIRST looking into issue with E09? I assuming ours is newer ?

Any help is appreciated....

[ratdude747]

sounds like a horribly timed bad batch of USB sticks or perhaps an ESD fault in shipping.

I guess the 2008 IR sensors are no longer the weakest KOP electronics of all time...

[RufflesRidge]

Originally Posted by vladsfl

We are rookie team and received brand new Classmate and 2012 Image E11 - having same issue.. press F11 and it does not show USB key as a boot option.
I only see HDD and Lan adapter as boot options.
If I simply plug it into another computer it does not read it.

I see FIRST looking into issue with E09? I assuming ours is newer ?

Any help is appreciated....

That sounds like a different issue than what I have heard and seen with the E09.

If your E11 Imaging USB shows blank or doesn't show up at all when plugged into a working Windows machine I would put in a Replacement Parts Request. Make sure (as best you can) that the USB stick is the only part missing or broken before submitting the request, but you have to get it submitted by Wednesday @ 8pm Eastern.

EDIT: Also, make sure you are using the Classmate Imaging USB stick and not the National Instruments USB which is credit card sized.

[grambo]

Looks like I may have stumbled on the root cause... I just tried to make a bootable FreeDOS USB stick (thanks to unetbootin) and then copy the contents of the E09 stick onto my bootable FreeDOS stick. I was unable to copy over the 4.3GB image file, and then it dawned on me, that the E09 stick is an NTFS filesystem and my 16GB stick was formated with FAT32.

My guess is that the E09 Classmate's BIOS doesn't know how to access an NTFS filesystem.

Hope I'm not just spreading rumors,
-Jonathan

[rsisk]

Originally Posted by vladsfl

We are rookie team and received brand new Classmate and 2012 Image E11 - having same issue.. press F11 and it does not show USB key as a boot option.
I only see HDD and Lan adapter as boot options.
If I simply plug it into another computer it does not read it.

I see FIRST looking into issue with E09? I assuming ours is newer ?

Any help is appreciated....

we had this problem on several classmates during our RQBS. Putting the USB drive in the USB hub, then plugging the hub into the classmate fixed the problem for us.