On Saturday 14 April 2018 at 12:46:26, Bastiaan van den Berg wrote:
> in my experience, 9 out of 10 times 'unable to use USB stick for booting'
> is just partition layout (partition not starting on 4MB interval or wrong
> type/flags)
How can that happen when you download an ISO image and put it directly on the
USB stick, partition table included?
It's not like you're partitioning / formatting the USB stick yourself and then
writing files to it.
Antony.
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 12:34 PM, wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On 14 Apr 2018, at 18:37, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> > >
> > > Am 14. April 2018 02:34:16 MESZ schrieb Vernon Geiszler:
> > >> The jessie stick does boot. It just won't retieve the binary-amd64
> > >> package. The ascii stick shows no operating system. It seems the
> > >> auto run is not working. I just tried it on the tower I just
> > >> installed using the jessie stick and got no response. It seems the
> > >> auto run is not working.
> > >
> > > Hallo Vernon,
> > >
> > > did you verify the integrity of the stick? In doubt, I'd checksum the
> > > iso and create a new boot stick.
> > >
> > > There are also a lot cheap USB sticks around, which anonce a higher
> > > capacity than they actually have. The OS does not recognize this on
> > > write.
> > >
> > > IIRC the installer has an option to verify its integrity, too.
> > >
> > > Libre Grüße,
> > >
> > > Florian
> >
> > I’ve also found that too. Cheap USB sticks that work fine for file
> > storage but have problems when trying to boot from the drive.
> >
> > Trying again with the same .iso on a better quality USB stick would work
> > fine.
> >
> > —Tom
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