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From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 00:32:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140902223224.GB2764@methusalix.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140902141008.GN15640@syscon7>

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On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 08:10:08AM -0600, Joseph wrote:

> >> I just did as you suggested dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
> >> dd if=/home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso
> >> of=/dev/sdb
> >> sync
> >>
> >> make no difference, the USB still will not boot.
> >What actually happens when you try to boot ?
> >do you get any messages?
> >some bios will require you to specify usb boot device type of cdrom or
> >hard disk do you have a press F11 for boot choices menu or similar?
> >it could be that you have usb cdrom selected as primary boot device, ide
> >disk as secondary and then "other removables" after this. please confirm
> >your bios boot orders
> 
> Booting sequence is USB and HD.  If I will not insert bootable USB it will
> boot from HD It works, as the bootable USB I created with Systemrescue CD
> script it worked.  When I plug in the USB stick it boots from it.

It is my observation with many (if not all) of my systems that the USB stick
was in fact not considered a USB device but an HDD. So to boot from a stick,
instead of changing the boot order to USB → HDD → CD-Rom → whatever I had to
put HDD at the top and then – within the HDD selection – move the USB stick
above the internal HDD. But then again, those were mostly laptops, whose
BIOSes always seemed very crippled to me.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-02 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-30  5:37 [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Joseph
2014-08-30  6:15 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-30  6:32   ` Joseph
2014-08-30  7:08     ` J. Roeleveld
2014-08-31 18:06 ` Joseph
2014-09-01  0:55   ` Will Tomlinson
2014-09-01  1:28     ` wraeth
2014-09-01  2:06     ` Joseph
2014-09-01  2:16       ` wraeth
2014-09-01  6:48         ` Joseph
2014-09-01  7:18           ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-01 15:44             ` Joseph
2014-09-01  8:02           ` Peter Humphrey
2014-09-01 15:45             ` Joseph
2014-09-01  9:46           ` wraeth
2014-09-01  9:32       ` J. Roeleveld
2014-09-01 16:00         ` Joseph
2014-09-02 11:20           ` J. Roeleveld
2014-09-01  8:51     ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-01  9:13       ` Mick
2014-09-01 10:12         ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-01  9:42       ` wraeth
2014-09-01  9:58         ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-01 16:29         ` Joseph
2014-09-01 16:38           ` Christopher Jones
2014-09-01 16:41             ` Christopher Jones
2014-09-01 19:12               ` Joseph
2014-09-01 20:05                 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-01 18:53             ` Christian Kruse
2014-09-01 19:50               ` Will Tomlinson
2014-09-01 23:42                 ` Joseph
2014-09-02  0:08                   ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02  0:26                     ` Joseph
2014-09-02  5:36                       ` Mick
2014-09-02  5:55                         ` Joseph
2014-09-02  6:23                           ` Dale
2014-09-02  7:21                             ` Christian Kruse
2014-09-02  7:35                             ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02  8:00                               ` Dale
2014-09-02  9:56                                 ` Mick
2014-09-02 10:16                                   ` Dale
2014-09-02 13:10                                   ` Joseph
2014-09-02 13:26                                     ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02  9:38                                       ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2014-09-02 13:38                                     ` thegeezer
2014-09-02 14:10                                       ` Joseph
2014-09-02 14:40                                         ` Peter Humphrey
2014-09-02 14:42                                         ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02 16:16                                         ` thegeezer
2014-09-02 22:32                                         ` Frank Steinmetzger [this message]
2014-09-02 14:46                                     ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-02 16:50                                       ` Joseph
2014-09-02 17:21                                         ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02 18:12                                           ` Joseph
2014-09-02 21:09                                             ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02 18:17                                         ` J. Roeleveld
2014-09-02 21:55                                         ` Walter Dnes
2014-09-02 12:29                           ` Matti Nykyri
2014-09-01 20:13               ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-01 21:58                 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-01 22:03                   ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-01 22:14                     ` Mick
2014-09-02 22:27                       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2014-09-02 22:43                         ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02 22:49                         ` Dale
2014-09-01 23:51                     ` Joseph
2014-09-02  0:09                       ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-02  0:29                         ` Joseph
2014-09-02  0:36                           ` wraeth
2014-09-02  9:48                 ` Christian Kruse
2014-09-01 20:05           ` Neil Bothwick

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