Can't Boot to USB

[-memetic-]

I have a friend's Sony VIO laptop and it skips right over the bios loading. There are no options to enter to change any bios settings, or boot order. It just continually reloads windows vista. Does anyone know how to get around this?

[jerrrys]

I do not own one, but seems to be a lot of post on it

http://www.googlubuntu.com/results/?cx=006238239194895611142%3Au-ocqbntw_o&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=Sony+VaIO+usb+boot&as_qdr=all&sa=Google+Search&lang=en#956

[-memetic-]

Nope nothing. Still need help.

[Lyoko]

Nope nothing. Still need help.
check if you see "press f12 to.... press f11 to...."
its a boot device selector.

[presence1960]

Quite a few BIOS "see" a bootable USB as hard disk and lists them in BIOS under hard disk. With the USB plugged in, boot and go into BIOS and check under hard disk. Set the USB to boot before the hard disk, that is if it is indeed listed under hard disk. I have a Biostar mobo and that is what it does for USBs.