Hi Ralph, On 26 June 2012 10:21, Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hail Victor, > > > Is there anything else I need to do to make a bootable USB key from an > > ISO image? > > No, don't think so. I had a similar problem a while ago. Finally > decided the no-brand 4GB USB stick my brother had got for free, not > needed, and passed onto me, couldn't be booted from. It took a lot of > messing around to suspect it, ending up with ensuring it was > byte-for-byte identical with another, Sandisk, that could boot. So have > you booted off that USB stick before? > No, it's the first time I have done anything with that USB key. It's not a no-name, it's Emtec brand but I dunno what sort of reputation they have. I will try a new SanDisk I have sitting here. FWIW I just tried two things: 1. regenerated the USB Stick using $ sudo dd if=linuxmint-yadyayda.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M ; same appearance and same behaviour 2. tried booting same USB key in different laptop, after setting BIOS: same behaviour. 3. checked the md5sum for the ISO against that given on the MInt web site. thanks also to Dominic, but I am getting into the BIOS OK (F2 on mine, as it happens) and asking it to boot from BIOS but it's not doing so. @Sean, thanks for that tip - I will take a look. cheers victor -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-06-12 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
