[olug] boot from USB stick probs

[Rob Townley]

Here are some other things i do:

Firmware update for Motherboard and DVD.

Try a different USB stick altogether, better yet a sdcard.

Maybe it was plop, maybe not, but there is a boot from CD to then pick the
USB stick that has worked for me on DL380 servers and a not so old desktop
machine.  This is your bet in your case after firmware.  CD boot that
launches the DVD image from the DVD drive or a USB stick.

CentOS x64 only told me that i did not meet 64bit requirements when i
booted from the full image, all the other usb  and LiveCD varieties just
hung.  Is it a 64bit cpu? Motherboard? 64bit chipset?

PXE server such as URANOS is always nice to have on a LAN or GB internet.

P.S. I have used MultiSystem on Ubuntu to create bootable usb.

 On Nov 6, 2013 10:34 PM, "Eric P" <eric.maillist at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kelly, I already verified the image boots on a laptop.
>
> Sam, I tried *every* boot option this time, and none of them worked.  Worse
> yet I have a DVD w/the same image installed, and it won't boot either.
>  When I select the CDROM boot selection, I do see the DVD drive light up,
> and it says something like BOOT CD/DVD twice.  But then it just silently
> fails and boots the Linux I have installed on the hard drive.
>
> The computer is from 2010 (I built from parts), and I seem to remember
> having this problem back in 2010 too.  Booting a CD image works, so I'm
> pretty sure that's what I did back then.  Unfortunately, the distro images
> I want to try (Ubuntu or Linux Mint) all are DVD exclusively now.
>
> It's baffling.  For what it's worth I have my DVD drive as the main devices
> and the CD drive as the slave.  The DVD device is pretty old (probably from
> '05), so I may try popping in another, slightly never DVD drive.
>
> *ugh*
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Kelly Williams <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > check to see if the image is still good. if you are using with this with
> > unetbootin, first wipe the flash drive first. then put your image back on
> > the flash drive. if that don't work download a program called plop and
> burn
> > it to a CD.
> > On Nov 6, 2013 7:42 PM, "Eric P" <eric.maillist at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi OLUGers,
> > >
> > > Long time no post from me.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to boot the latest Ubuntu (13.10) install image from a USB
> > stick
> > > on my desktop, and it just won't go.  I have verified this USB stick
> > boots
> > > on my work laptop, so I know the image is good.
> > >
> > > On my desktop I'm able to get a BIOS menu to pick the device to boot
> to.
> > >
> > > Here are all the options I'm given.
> > > Floppy, LS120, Hard Disk, CDROM, ZIP, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM,
> > USB-HDD,
> > > Legacy LAN
> > >
> > > I've tried everyone of the USB-* options, but it never boots up.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks for reading.
> > > Eric P.
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