unetbootin, failure to boot after creation

[F W Adams]

I went through the USB creation process but am now unable to boot from the usb. I know my bios is caplable of booting USB's.

host: ubuntu 12.04
create usb: ubuntu 10.04 live, capacity is 4GB
selected 200MB persistent

Directory of usb

felix@xxx:~$ ls -l /media/KINGSTON
total 207152
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 166 Apr 14 2010 autorun.inf
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 209715200 Jul 14 12:15 casper-rw
-r--r--r-- 1 felix felix 32768 Jul 14 12:13 ldlinux.sys
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 60928 Jul 14 12:13 menu.c32
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 156 Jul 14 12:13 syslinux.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 0 Jul 14 12:13 ubnfilel.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 0 Jul 14 12:13 ubnpathl.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 felix felix 361248 Sep 14 2011 unInstaller.exe
drwx------ 4 felix felix 4096 May 5 10:20 urDrive
-rwxr-xr-x 1 felix felix 1934624 Sep 14 2011 urDrive.exe


On attempting to boot there is a countdown timer that starts at 10, when it reaches 0 it just starts at 10 again

The tab key produces,
">ubnkern initrd=/ubninit persistent"

Thanks for any help

[Cheesehead]

Double-check that you used a valid 10.04 image.
Try making the USB Stick again.

The directory listing you posted seems to have neither a kernel or a compressed-system to use that kernel, both of which come from the 10.04 image.

[F W Adams]

Thanks for infomation

This is where I got it from. A fresh the iso image was downloaded by the program in each case.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

To my amazement this time the result was different, there are even less files put onto the usb. This looks to me to be some sort of buffer problem, at least that's my guess. The corrent files being sent to the usb by the program ( unetbootin-linux-575 ) but then not being written to the usb before closing down. Any ideas?

First try, selected reboot at end
Second try, selected exit and then closed down
Will now try exit, list usb files, umount usb, and then closing down?

felix@emma:~$ ls -l -R /media/KINGSTON
/media/KINGSTON:
total 204896
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 209715200 Jul 15 00:30 casper-rw
-r--r--r-- 1 felix felix 32768 Jul 15 00:29 ldlinux.sys
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 60928 Jul 15 00:29 menu.c32
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 156 Jul 15 00:29 syslinux.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 0 Jul 15 00:29 ubnfilel.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 0 Jul 15 00:29 ubnpathl.txt

[F W Adams]

You can see here it is just not putting on all the files on the USB. Next I'll try downloading an ISO image from this site and then comparing it to the one I'm already using.

felix@emma:~/unetbootin$ sudo ./unetbootin-linux-575
felix@emma:~/unetbootin$ ls -l /media/form-15.07-
total 204896
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 209715200 Jul 15 09:40 casper-rw
-r--r--r-- 1 felix felix 32768 Jul 15 09:38 ldlinux.sys
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 60928 Jul 15 09:38 menu.c32
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 156 Jul 15 09:38 syslinux.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 0 Jul 15 09:38 ubnfilel.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 felix felix 0 Jul 15 09:38 ubnpathl.txt
felix@emma:~/unetbootin$ ls -l /media/form-15.07- > before.reboot.575

[sudodus]

Maybe the following links will help you pass the threshold

Unetbootin (see the last post):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1885392

Cloning the iso file:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1958073

[F W Adams]

I have isolsted the problem a bit but not solved.

It makes no difference what OS or iso I try to load, the list of files copied to the drive varies each time and of course it never boots.

I'd be very surprised if it's a unetbootin problem now. I tried a different usb drive by a different manufacturer and unetbootin for that worked fine. I bought 4 new USB drives last week, all the same manufacturer ( KINGSTON ) and none of them work. It comes with something called urDrive that seems difficult to get rid of.

I tried "dd if=xxx.img of=/dev/sd?" and seems to copy the image but won't boot.

I even tried "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=4096" to try and destroy whatever is on the USB but after creating the partition table again etc etc. it was still the same. I am wondering if the usb appears to be something that it is not.

Wasted hours on this.

[ame82]

Double-check that you used a valid 10.04 image.
Try making the USB Stick again.

The directory listing you posted seems to have neither a kernel or a compressed-system to use that kernel, both of which come from the 10.04 image.

what if i am using ubuntu 12.04
i am tryiing to make HBCD using the iso file and unetbootin but it boot only to main screen where is the only choise is default and when i click it it doesnt do anything and my hbcd doesnt start