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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