> On 02.06.2016, at 15:44, hughbragg-at-gmail.com |qubes-mailing-list/Example 
> Allow| <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:33:04 UTC+10, [email protected]  wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 01:56:41 UTC+10, John Messina  wrote:
>>> I created an install USB drive from the 3.1 ISO using Rufus (DD image).  I 
>>> have secure boot off and have tried with legacy boot both on and off.  At 
>>> the boot menu I've tried "test and install", "install", and "troubleshoot". 
>>>  All have the same effect - the boot menu goes away and then immediately 
>>> comes back up.  Any ideas what might be preventing the install from 
>>> working?  The laptop is an HP with an AMD A6 processor.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> John
>> 
>> I have a similar problem. In my case I don't even get the installation menu. 
>> The computer tries to boot from the usb stick and eventually gives up and 
>> boots the old operating system. I tried using linux dd to begin with but 
>> when that didn't work I used Rufus as recommended but the result was the 
>> same.
>> Any clues anyone?
> 
> Is there any way to analyse the boot. I can't see a thing so have no idea 
> what the problem might be. How can I retrieve log or error data?

You are making sure, you are  writing the data to the device and not to a 
partition on it, right?

The dd command ought to be:

dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/sdX

and NOT

dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/sdX1

Regards, Frank

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