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
> 
> 

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