On 09/02/2014 01:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 07:10:46 -0600, Joseph wrote: > >> I just did as you suggested >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 >> dd if=/home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso >> of=/dev/sdb sync >> >> make no difference, the USB still will not boot. > This is odd as you have created a bootable USB stick. Are you using EFI? > > If not, does your BIOS have options for booting from different devices, > USB CD, USB HD, USB Zip, etc? You may need to try different > alternatives, one system I have wants to boot USB sticks as Zip > drives :-O > > A couple days ago someone mentioned ArchLinux's ISO - in the interim, you *could* use that if you just need something right now. The gentoo devs are great, but the ArchLinux devs produce an amazing ISO - it supports 32 and 64-bit as well as both non-EFI and EFI boot. Then it's just a simple 'dd if=path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdX && sync'. I've used the archlinux iso to install Gentoo since forever purely for this reason.
Alec
