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Vpc
March 11th, 2012, 03:18 AM
I've tried installing 11.10 from my Kingston Data Traveler (8GB), fat32, after following the instructions here http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download
after using a bootable USB created in Windows and then using one created in Ubuntu. I've given the removable drives the highest priority in the BIOS but it just skips to the hard drive. I am able to access the USB drive via the hard drive so it's functioning. I am trying to install 11.10 on a home Desktop with no internet connection. (I was unable to connect to wired internet after installing of Ubuntu 10.04.04 using an older 4GB Kingston USB pen drive after a new Intel DP67DE micro ATX motherboard installed. After trying all the instructions online from various sites, seems the D Link DGE-530T PCI adapter version C1 & onboard Intel 82579 may not be compatible with 10.04 and the only PCI express slot is being used for a video card.)

Why won't the USB work? Was the Ubuntu 11.10 iso corrupted?

2F4U
March 11th, 2012, 09:21 AM
First of all, verify the checksum of the downloaded iso file:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

How did you install the iso on the usb drive, from which OS and what program did you use?

oldfred
March 11th, 2012, 04:52 PM
Is system set to BIOS or UEFI?

Are you trying to use USB3? Try the USB2 ports. There seem to have been issues booting with many USB3 ports even though they are supposed to be backwards compatible.

Vpc
March 11th, 2012, 06:59 PM
First of all, verify the checksum of the downloaded iso file:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

How did you install the iso on the usb drive, from which OS and what program did you use?

Yeah I made sure I checked with md5sum before burning a new download of the iso onto a CD ROM yesterday. I will try my usb key later with this iso. I downloaded the iso from Windows. I used the pendrivelinux.com software recommended in step 2 of Ubuntu's download website in my first post when installing it on my usb drive in Windows, but the version I installed using Ubuntu's Startup Disk Creator had the same problem.


Is system set to BIOS or UEFI?

Are you trying to use USB3? Try the USB2 ports. There seem to have been issues booting with many USB3 ports even though they are supposed to be backwards compatible.

BIOS. Was not using USB3 ports. Someone told me that some usb pen drives are not bootable and I also saw this comment online somewhere. I called Kingston's technical support and the rep said they don't support bootability or 3rd party software and weren't able to confirm if it's true that some usb drives are bootable and some are not. Does anyone know if this is a rumor or factual? The rep said he thought that something had changed in the G3 model from the older model of their pen drive (which I bought in 2010) to cause this but there must be some usb experts who know if it's true some pen drives are not bootable.

oldfred
March 11th, 2012, 07:15 PM
I have used both Kingston and Microcenter USB flash drives. But I have a full install in my 16GB Kingston and it run 12.04 now.
Some have had issues with different flash drives and the different flash drive installers.


fred@fred-LT-A105:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb unit s print
Model: Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 31375360s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 2048s 4095s 2048s KingstonData bios_grub
2 4096s 14749695s 14745600s ext4
3 14749696s 29327359s 14577664s ext4
4 29327360s 31373311s 2045952s ntfs



Pendrive also has page on booting ISOs
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

I actually now only use grub2's boot loader to directly loop mount ISOs for installing either from a hard drive or flash drive.

Rex Bouwense
March 11th, 2012, 08:56 PM
You probably have already checked this but some computers recognize some flash or pen drives as another hard drive. My Kingston flash drive is recognized as a hard drive and to boot from it I have to change the order of "hard drives" in the BIOS so the flash drive is the first to boot. This may be your case as well.

Vpc
March 12th, 2012, 06:26 AM
You probably have already checked this but some computers recognize some flash or pen drives as another hard drive. My Kingston flash drive is recognized as a hard drive and to boot from it I have to change the order of "hard drives" in the BIOS so the flash drive is the first to boot. This may be your case as well.

Yes that fixed it. I didn't really bother to look because I thought I could just get the CD anyways and then heard about some USB drives not being bootable. I think that might only happen if the USB drive has software on it from the manufacturer that interferes with booting. The G3 doesn't come with any software.