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itzdarockz
July 24th, 2012, 05:04 AM
I sucessfully extracted ubuntu 12.04 to a formatted FAT32 usb. Than when I tried booting into ubuntu a screen that says the SYSLINUX copyright is shown and stuck like that. I cannot type or do anything in that screen except turn the power off (obviously). Also the usb I am using is seen as FDD instead of USB for some reason. Thanks!
NikTh
July 24th, 2012, 05:16 AM
Hi ,
how did you extract the .iso image to usb ? did you use a program ?

Thanks
lakona
July 24th, 2012, 07:06 AM
Are you using a Ubuntu machine?

If so, try using the USB startup disk creator.

I believe it's in System-->Startup Disk Creator
itzdarockz
July 24th, 2012, 04:36 PM
Hi ,
how did you extract the .iso image to usb ? did you use a program ?

Thanks

Through unetbootin. Sorry I should've specified.
itzdarockz
July 24th, 2012, 04:36 PM
Are you using a Ubuntu machine?

If so, try using the USB startup disk creator.

I believe it's in System-->Startup Disk Creator

No, im on windows 7.
Bufeu
July 24th, 2012, 04:41 PM
Have you made it bootable?
NikTh
July 24th, 2012, 04:41 PM
Hi ,
try to boot again , but change usb port . Plug in your usb to another usb port. I assume you have more than one (ports).

I guess that if you press Esc you will see a message similar to this "Cannot find installation media"
or something like this.

Another suggestion might be to burn a LiveCD (if you have CD drive) .

Thanks
NikTh
July 24th, 2012, 04:43 PM
Have you made it bootable?

Unetbootin makes the Usb bootable automatically .

Except if OP stopped the process .
aimwin
July 24th, 2012, 04:50 PM
Sometimes you will have issues with usb hardware.
or many other issues.

So if you want less trouble burn Ubuntu Live CD ISO instead.
Slower installation process but much more solid installation.

Ubuntu 12.04 has bugs on installation for certain environment.
I don't know if you use window 7 and unetbootin will produce some other errors or not.

Please try to use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and see if the problem solved or not.

But best if you can create usb stick from UBUNTU machine
with System-->Startup Disk Creator as lakona said.

Good luck
oldfred
July 24th, 2012, 08:44 PM
Floppy drives need a different type of image to boot. My system does not boot from any USB option with a flash drive, but from the choice of which hard drive to boot from. See if you can choose which hard drive to boot from, not USB device.
C.S.Cameron
July 25th, 2012, 12:52 AM
Problem might be corrupted iso download, check MD5SUM.