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PopsTheSailor
November 14th, 2016, 09:55 PM
I have an older laptop and the cd player no longer works. I blew up grub and needed boot-repair but I couldn't find any directions on how to install it to a USB drive instead of a disk. When i tried Brasario to burn the iso, there was no option for the USB drive. Luckily I was able to carve out some space on my HDD and install a fresh install of ubuntu which fixed grub. I then booted on my real partition and move grub over so I'm back up and running but would like Boot-Repair on a USB in case it happens again.

Note: when I tried the directions on how to install BR to a live usb stick, BR would run but never fix grub and didn't log any errors.

oldfred
November 14th, 2016, 10:24 PM
Boot-Repair has its own ISO as live system with it already included.
But not sure what version ISO still is (update of 2014-11-30). It was an older Lubuntu so it still fit on CD, but flash drive recommended if UEFI.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/files/

You can use any Ubuntu live installer and add Boot-Repair, but have to re-add each time you reboot.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/?source=recommended
https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/

PopsTheSailor
November 15th, 2016, 03:13 PM
oldfred,
I guess I wasn't clear in my post. In fact, I think I'm going to repost my need to make it more clear. I have the ISO, I need to know what program I can use to burn an ISO file onto a flash drive since my DVD drive no longer works. I tried Brasario but I didn't see an option to burn to a flash drive, only a CD drive.

oldfred
November 15th, 2016, 06:30 PM
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
these should then work:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Win32DiskImager/iso2usb
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/InstallingLubuntu (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Win32DiskImager/iso2usb)