From: Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:38:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5405900C.10805@alectenharmsel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140902142644.0b08ac6b@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
On 09/02/2014 01:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 07:10:46 -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.
> This is odd as you have created a bootable USB stick. Are you using EFI?
>
> If not, does your BIOS have options for booting from different devices,
> USB CD, USB HD, USB Zip, etc? You may need to try different
> alternatives, one system I have wants to boot USB sticks as Zip
> drives :-O
>
>
A couple days ago someone mentioned ArchLinux's ISO - in the interim,
you *could* use that if you just need something right now. The gentoo
devs are great, but the ArchLinux devs produce an amazing ISO - it
supports 32 and 64-bit as well as both non-EFI and EFI boot. Then it's
just a simple 'dd if=path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdX && sync'. I've
used the archlinux iso to install Gentoo since forever purely for this
reason.
Alec
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-02 13:38 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 [this message]
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
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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