Booting an Asus EeePC from a LiveCD USB stick

The Asus computers have an interesting feature to allow boot device selection without entering into the BIOS setup screen. When you just power up your computer, first of all, you will see a gray screen showing the Asus logo. While on this screen, press the ESC key and the computer will show you a blue screen with a list of bootable devices.

Steps to follow:

• Power off your computer (the one having problems to boot from USB)
• Plug the USB device on one USB port. Try to choose one direct USB port instead of one port connected to an internal USB hub. If you do not know which one to choose, use the same as you used on the netbook which was able to boot from USB.
• Power on the netbook
• Hit the ESC key.
• The USB device should appear as a possible boot device. Select it
• If everything was right, your computer should be booting from the live USB device.

First Disable BOOT BOOSTER to boot on USB device: 1) hit F2 and Disable Boot Booster and Quiet Boot 2) hit Esc on next reboot to get the 'select boot device' menu. The problem, I think, is that (some?) USB drives are not fast enough to be recognized as bootable when Boot Booster is enabled (and then won't show up on the 'select Boot device' menu, even though the USB device visible in "Boot Device Priority' in the setup BIOS). My unit Eee PC 1005PE.