On 16 July 2015 at 23:39, <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > >> On 16 July 2015 at 23:28, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 2015-07-16, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive >>> > (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use >>> > unetbootin to do the magic though. >>> >>> Has that changed recently? I tought the minimal ISO was already >>> "hybrid" and would boot directly from a USB drive. I would have sworn >>> I did nothing other than "dd" it to a USB drive the last time I did an >>> install. >> >> So do I, it worked perfectly, I was very impressed. > > Yes, that is what I thought I read here (and know I read it on the > wiki). But it failed for me (this is my first time with flash; > previously I used a CD-R) and apparently also for McKinnon. > Perhaps there is a basic minimal-iso/flash/al+an incompatibility. :-)
The only thing I can think of is that bootloader recognize the device via BIOS and Linux (install-cd configuration) does not as it is special device. Try to exit to shell and see if you have /dev/sd*. Read dmesg and see if storage is recognized. Alon
