Only problem is it's in rescue mode (maybe ubuntu is recognizing the existing debian installation?) and even then, is insisting on mount the cd-rom drive (which is inexistent). And lo and behold, the god forsaken pen drive did boot.
Bootable usb spinrite 6 iso#
Unfortunately I've had problems with that installation which are outside the scope of this post.Īs I was writing this, I was also trying out some other tool, Universal USB Installer (win 7, with the same iso as before). A few days ago I was trying my hand at installing debian, and this is the only thing I've tried that actually worked, was to copy directly the netinstall image on the pen drive. Most of the time, it would simply not boot. something along those lines) and shoot a "sync" as well as a "eject /dev/sdX" afterwards.Ĭopying directly the iso : using "cat", "cp" or "dd" directly into the pen drive. I've been careful to always format the usb drive first (FAT), through the graphical tool or some other console tool (msdostk. Invariably, it only gives me a "Boot error" message when plugged in, and nothing more. I tried to include a lot of sample configuration entries, even if I dont currently use them, so it may help others. crashed), I've instead opted with unetbootin. My own configuration file for GRUB2 to boot various live distributions of Linux-based operating systems, along with some system tools. The native usb-creator-gtk proving to be useless (i.e. So far I've tried this (on my old ubuntu 10.04, and sometimes, purely out of boredom, on win 7) : This is on a lenovo x230, with USB-* options all up there in the boot order, as well as UEFI / secureboot support disabled (as it seems it messes with most linux distro).
Bootable usb spinrite 6 install#
I've been trying to install ubuntu (server edition, 13.04 i386) through a USB pen drive, and so far I've miserably failed.
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