On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 02:23:03PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I used dd to copy the installer iso to a USB stck on my old laptop: > > dd bs=4M if=devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_netinst.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress > && sync > > Then I moved the USB stick to my new Purism laptop, powered it up, > pressed esacpe to get a boot menu, and the USB stick was not recognised > as a boot device. > > Is there something that needs to be done to the ISO before putting it on > the USB stick? Or is the dd command wrong? I remember that years ago > it had to be modified somehow in order to boot, but I thought that had been > fixed long > long ago. Something like prefixing it with a recognisable boot record? > > Sorry for not testing this in the beta days, but I didn't have the new > computer yet.
Sorry! False alarm! I just discovered it's a defectuve USB stick that makes intermittent content. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
