If you've got Intrepid running, you can use the builtin usb boot device creation tool. Go to System-->Administration-->Create a USB Startup DIsk
Jim
If you've got Intrepid running, you can use the builtin usb boot device creation tool. Go to System-->Administration-->Create a USB Startup DIsk
Jim
It looks like you need to format your flash drive.
I have found that trying to format one with multiple partitions in Windows can brick it.
Suggest you reformat your flash drive using the partition editor on the Live CD, (gparted).
Format in FAT 32 and try Unetbootin again, or the tool on the 8.10 CD.
If you use Unetbootin select Diskimage and not Distribution or Custom.
Last edited by C.S.Cameron; November 16th, 2008 at 12:36 AM.
I got the usb key formatted using gparted, and then using create USB startup disk. fdisk -lu shows only one partition with an asterisk under Boot. But ironically, when trying to boot under the usb key, I got no more "Boot Error" message, in fact I get no messages at all, only a blank screen! (But I still can ctrl+alt+del).
Tough, the live usb works normally on a Dell Laptop.
I think it has something to do with the BIOS. I have an X61 with the exact same problem. It has nothing to do with your partitioning. When you were using unetbootin, it didn't write partitions to your disk, it was writing raw data. Fdisk doesn't apply in those situations since there are no partitions. My flash drive looked exactly the same after putting a Slackware boot image on a flash drive. It would boot fine on other laptops, but not this thinkpad. Something is wrong... Please post if you have any ideas.
My thinkpad SL500 also refuses to boot from my external USB hard drive. But I have two different work arounds
1) I boot to the grub menu on the internal drive. Press "ctr-alt-del" to reboot, press "F12" and then I can choose to boot from the USB drive.
2) I added the boot manager Plop to my grub menu. After choosing "Plop" at the grub menu, I get a boot menu where I can choose to boot from the "USB" drive.
You can also install Plop to the MBR if you don't want to go through two boot menus.
Warning: When Plop is installed to the MBR, it has some powerful features. For example it lets you change the partition table. When I first installed Plop, I played around with it, to see what it can do ( after only having glanced over the instruction). Well, I succeed to completely mess up my partition table, even the hard disk geometry had changed.
Luckily I was able to restore the partition table with testdisk.
Last edited by meierfra.; December 20th, 2008 at 11:37 PM.
Ubuntu 9.10(karmic) USB drives created with unetbootin and usb-creator-gtk all failed to boot with "Boot Error" on multiple machines. I ended up running the universal USB installer under Windows and that booted with no issues.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/create-...sb-in-windows/
I have fixed this "boot error" issue by formatting my usb to fat32 and using unetbootin to create a bootable usb.
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