Netbook ignores usb live version

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I've got my netbook currently running Ubuntu, and I thought I'd use unetbootin to create a live usb for some other versions of Linux, to get a taste. When I originally went to install Linux I had a few issues booting from USB until I disabled bootbuster in the netbook bios, then it worked fine.

I've now got a USB stick with another version of Linux, but when I boot the laptop it goes straight to the standard Grub loader. Any ideas why, and anything I can try to fix it? Would the size of the USB stick (16gb) make any difference - the original one was 1gb and worked fine..

EDIT: When I disable booting from everything else the BIOS complains there's no bootable media. I've now made this usb key using 'unetbootin' and 'Startup Disk Creator' using a Lubuntu image, but got the same result in both cases...
 
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mmmmmmm could be/try

1. used wrong settings (unetbootin)
2. format the usb as FAT32, and try again

If you have another computer available try to boot to the USB stick (if the BIOS allows this option)

Worth a bash :)
 
Answer appears to be furiously hitting escape when the BIOS message is displayed!
 
what are you using to make the usb bootable?? have you tried the "make startup disk" software that comes preloaded on Ubuntu??
 
No - apparently it's a known problem with Asus eee PC. The article said go into BIOS, come out and furiously press escape but just turning on and furiously pressing escape worked!
 
What else might be useful for people to know is that an SD card in the built in reader *does* follow the standard boot sequence without having to press escape, so if you have an SD card rather than a USB key you can use this and just change the boot sequence to look at 'Removable Media' first. Just seems to be stuff in the USB slots that are the issue
 
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