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 AF91713877A for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 13:38:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAA34E09B1; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 13:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA508E0952 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 13:38:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by gateway2.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6348A209EF for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 09:38:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:38:28 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=Ws3SdPMnNkInlScHk0Z1sz s+zhw=; b=dBKzIL7KXvd16nkoGxWV1k7bLB+k2zLJKcUO8dK7i51/m0bxeKQowd XnMcooEg6bpxC3Fmhk2Pgcev5rng9VAc1bl8zmB7L+QIwVTWvP9RGxlK/Fixyh0x VnYCL1ktbHl0oXFyZkF7/gDY8gJoBD4DLFZx4Vf3jvz0M4fFAbsEU= X-Sasl-enc: VDUaUBD7Zp6qJ3B3Azj/8jj9MtPvoEBV58pP5MBt8fkP 1409665108 Received: from [192.168.1.22] (unknown [98.243.88.220]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2AD56C0091B for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 09:38:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <5405900C.10805@alectenharmsel.com> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:38:20 +0000 From: Alec Ten Harmsel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB References: <20140830053737.GA5867@syscon2> <20140902010802.70b66b75@digimed.co.uk> <20140902002605.GJ15640@syscon7> <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> <20140902142644.0b08ac6b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140902142644.0b08ac6b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 18c6fa52-7a8c-4c72-97f7-a17ac9cdfd90 X-Archives-Hash: 85dc5cc641e50723faace301033a0df6 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