[olug] boot from USB stick probs

Kelly Williams kellywilliams81 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 02:27:52 UTC 2013


check to see if the image is still good. if you are using with this with
unetbootin, first wipe the flash drive first. then put your image back on
the flash drive. if that don't work download a program called plop and burn
it to a CD.
On Nov 6, 2013 7:42 PM, "Eric P" <eric.maillist at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi OLUGers,
>
> Long time no post from me.
>
> I'm trying to boot the latest Ubuntu (13.10) install image from a USB stick
> on my desktop, and it just won't go.  I have verified this USB stick boots
> on my work laptop, so I know the image is good.
>
> On my desktop I'm able to get a BIOS menu to pick the device to boot to.
>
> Here are all the options I'm given.
> Floppy, LS120, Hard Disk, CDROM, ZIP, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, USB-HDD,
> Legacy LAN
>
> I've tried everyone of the USB-* options, but it never boots up.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks for reading.
> Eric P.
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