From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3799C13877A for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 21:09:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07032E0A6A; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 21:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06B5AE08FF for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 21:09:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0DEE023485 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 22:09:21 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 22:09:17 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Message-ID: <20140902220917.00777caf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140902181243.GP15640@syscon7> References: <201409020636.17608.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20140902055515.GL15640@syscon7> <54056271.7020704@gmail.com> <20140902083540.182ae359@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <54057934.8060404@gmail.com> <20140902131046.GM15640@syscon7> <5405D845.4070401@gmail.com> <20140902165002.GO15640@syscon7> <20140902182122.55a7d3e5@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20140902181243.GP15640@syscon7> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1-119-g7fbc83 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/5nXC1OiyeXTpw0ume=6h/uM"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 3a02d949-d7c0-416e-b581-d31e597c7032 X-Archives-Hash: 4bf1544d16d70e7e75a4044355eb7c14 --Sig_/5nXC1OiyeXTpw0ume=6h/uM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 12:12:43 -0600, Joseph wrote: > It is very confusing.=20 > The box 1.) (above) I was testing it on my old USB stick I generated > few years ago (it boots OK), it boots USB stick generated by > Systemrescue CD. It does not boot USB stick I generated a new one > (manually), nor does it boot USB stick generated by "DD" or UNetbootin How do you generate a USB stick manually? What does that even mean? =20 > The second box after checking second time it boots USB stick generated > by "dd" and Systemrescue CD but it will not boot USB stick generated > manually or by UNetbootin UNetbootin only works with some distros, it is not a universal solution like hybrid ISOs. IMO it is redundant now we have hybrid ISOs and in my experience, very few distros are not hybrid nowadays. So forget Unetbootin. =20 > Apology the this long thread, but I'm still confused. I could > understand why it would not boot USB stick generated manually but why > it will not boot USB stick generatd by UNetbootin but it boots stick > generated by Systemrescue CD Because they create the stick in different ways, and there are several different types of USB device to emulate when doing so. If the only ISO that will boot from your computer on a USB stick is System Rescue Cd, use that. It's one of the best distros for installing Gentoo anyway. --=20 Neil Bothwick "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult" -C.A.R. Hoare --Sig_/5nXC1OiyeXTpw0ume=6h/uM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlQGMgEACgkQum4al0N1GQNRHACeIIhqQYZzcjO9paMrqhIl+VSI YCwAoKNlX4IRWq8icpzDj1r/Jq8y9wMh =Ir97 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/5nXC1OiyeXTpw0ume=6h/uM--