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Thread: I installed Ubuntu to a USB stick but can't boot from it

  1. #1
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    I installed Ubuntu to a USB stick but can't boot from it

    Hello,

    I installed Ubuntu Hardy to a 4 GIG USB stick but my computer doesn't recognize it as a bootable drive.

    I set the boot order to look for "removable drive" first.

    I get a black screen and it says please insert bootable drive and hit any key. It doesn't recognise my USB stick with Ubuntu as bootable.

    Any suggestions on how to make it bootable?

    Thank you for your help

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    Re: I installed Ubuntu to a USB stick but can't boot from it

    Use the Intrepid USB Ubuntu disk creator instead.

    It will configure it for you automatically with a newer version.
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    Re: I installed Ubuntu to a USB stick but can't boot from it

    Also keep in mind that not all computers are able to boot from USB, even if they are fairly recent.

    Both my custom rig and my Toshiba Satellite won't do USB boots. They'll just say something like "Error: No operating system found. Please insert boot disk and press Enter".

    I thought it was a bad pendrive or a bad transfer, but it works on my friend's PC so it just happens that mine are finicky with USB.

    Just FYI.

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    Re: I installed Ubuntu to a USB stick but can't boot from it

    True indeed! I went through the motions of making a bootable on USB as well, but come to find NONE of the machines I admin have the option to boot to USB in the BIOS (it's my luck, really).

    That's quite a frustration so I learner to look first.
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