On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 07:25:48AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 25/06/2018 à 20:23, Hendrik Boom a écrit : > >I used dd to copy the installer iso to a USB stck on my old laptop: > > > >dd bs=4M if=devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_netinst.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress > >&& sync > > > >Then I moved the USB stick to my new Purism laptop, powered it up, > >pressed esacpe to get a boot menu, and the USB stick was not recognised > >as a boot device. > > > >Is there something that needs to be done to the ISO before putting it on > >the USB stick? Or is the dd command wrong? I remember that years ago > >it had to be modified somehow in order to boot, but I thought that had been > >fixed long > >long ago. Something like prefixing it with a recognisable boot record? > > > >Sorry for not testing this in the beta days, but I didn't have the new > >computer yet. > > > > It seems you did it all well. Either your BIOS does not support > reading an iso9660 filesystem from an USB stick, or you just need to > allow it to boot from USB (in the BIOS menu). BTW, sync is useless: > dd is a synchronous connand, AFAIK.
It will boot the Purism installer from a USB stick if I use the same steps, starting wth the Purism ISO file, of course. So there is something else going on. The Purism hardware uses Coreboot, by the way. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
