Are you trying to install Tails onto a USB that already has an existing Linux USB install?
> The same computer and sticks are booting Debian 7.5.0 and Ubuntu > 14.04 fine. This is not supported. If that's not what you're doing you wrote that you were using the command: > sudo dd if=' tails-i386-1.0.iso' of=dev/sdc1 bs=16M If your USB target is "/dev/sdc" then use sudo dd if='tails.iso' of=dev/sdc bs=16M **Please note that if you do have this USB partitioned with data on another partition it will overwrite that partition.** On Wed, 14 May 2014 22:39:26 +0800 Leonhard Weese <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Tails Support, > > First of all, thank you very much for your great work with Tails! > > There is an issue that I want you to know about. It evolves around > creating the Live USB stick from the Ubuntu command line explained on > your site. I have managed to create the USB stick using UNetbootin. > Unfortunately it still does not work. > After selecting the USB as the device to boot from I face the > following five options, which each result in some form of freeze: > > Default: gets stuck at "[sdb] Attached SCSI disk" > menu_adm64: presents me with "boot:" > menu_486: presents me with "boot:" > Live (failsafe): starts the white/blue Debian loading screen which > gets stuck when it's completely white. > Live: starts the white/blue Debian loading screen which gets stuck > when it's completely white. > > > > I'm on Ubuntu 14.04, but I have also tried creating the Live USB > using the command line from 12.04 without success. > Unfortunately I don't have easy access to a Windows or Mac computer > so I could not try that, please let me know if that would have a high > chance of success, though. > > I'm running the command isohybrid 'tails-i386-1.0.iso' --entry 4 > --type 0x1c successfully (it seems, there is no output). The command > sudo dd if=' tails-i386-1.0.iso' of=dev/sdc1 bs=16M gives the output: > "56+1 records in > 56+1 records out > 953155584 bytes (953 MB) copied, 121.927 s, 7.8 MB/s" > > I have tried booting from various computers (Lenovo T60, HP Envy), > the one I'm on right now is a *Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 15* that boots > Ubuntu and Debian 7.5 fine from USB. It does not have UEFI or Secure > Boot. > > The USB drive is being detected as bootable, but after chosing it the > screen just stays blank except for a blinking underscore in the upper > left corner that keeps blinking indefinitely. It's the same behavior > across all devices. > > The same computer and sticks are booting Debian 7.5.0 and Ubuntu > 14.04 fine. > > Thanks a lot for any pointers and please let me know if you have any > questions! > > Leo > > _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
