I have a system with a DX58SO motherboard and an i7 CPU. I've tried multiple images downloaded today debian-live-507-amd64-rescue.img debian-squeeze-live-beta2-amd64-rescue.img debian-squeeze-live-beta2-i386-rescue.img
(from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/amd64/usb-hdd/ http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/6.0_beta2/i386/usb-hdd/ http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/6.0_beta2/amd64/usb-hdd/ ) I've used a variety of 1&2GByte USB sticks. I've re-read and verified the contents of the sticks after writing them. I've tried a variety of USB ports on the motherboard. All of the live images just give "Boot error" and that's it... no menu (I'm not actually sure whether "Boot error" is from the mobo BIOS or from debian...). Now the system is perfectly capable of booting USB sticks: I have another one with FreeDOS on it which works perfectly, and I just now burned one with the Squeeze beta2 installer (zap the stick with boot.img.gz then mount & copy debian-squeeze-di-beta2-i386-netinst.iso onto it) and it boots that just fine too. Further, the debian-squeeze-live-beta2-i386-rescue.img stick works perfectly in a Lenovo S10e laptop! So I _am_ dd-ing these live things right... there just seems to be this peculiar brokenness with the combination of debian-live .imgs and the DX58SO system... Any ideas/suggestions ? This isn't just for fun; I could really do with booting into a live system on the DX58SO to do some maintenance on the root filesystem. There seems to be a similar report back here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2009/01/msg00018.html but I don't yet know enough about this stuff to figure out how to build a bootable USB image from an ISO (which is what it seems to recommend before the thread goes cold). I did also play with live-build a bit at the tail end of 2010 and built my own .imgs and had exactly the same problems but assumed it was just me; I only just got around to investigating a bit more thoroughly now. Thanks for any help Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
