[Live-demo] Booting from OSGEOLive USB flash drive issue

[Cameron Shorter]

Thanks activityworkshop for your detailed debugging information.

Alex, Brian,
Are your "build a USB" tips and tricks in a wiki page yet?
This coming week, it would be really good if we could see if we can 
refine the USB creation steps, and then potentially update the USB 
creation docs on OSGeo-Live before our final release.

It seems that there are a few tricks and quirks associated with USB 
creation, and it would be good to start cataloguing them.

On 19/02/12 08:32, activityworkshop wrote:
> On 18/02/12 07:55, live-demo-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
>> Hi  all,
>>
>> I'm experiencing some issues to boot my OsgeoLive 5.0 USB flashdisk.
>> Following all step provided by the link
>> http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/usb_quickstart.html and all the 
>> steps
>> have been achieved successfully. But when I Boot the computer with 
>> the USB
>> flash drive nothing happen a get black screen with a flashing cursor.
>>
>> Thank you for your help...
>>
>> Regards
>
> I'm getting the same problem with 5.5.  I've got the mini-5.5-beta4 
> iso downloaded and checked the md5 sum.
> I've followed those same instructions (running the Startup Disk 
> Creator from within OSGeoLive 4.5 running from CD), and it seemed to 
> go fine, apart from getting really slow round about 94%.  But it said 
> it had finished successfully.
>
> Two different computers refuse to boot from this stick, one offers a 
> blank screen with "boot:" which refuses to do anything (typing "boot" 
> says there's no image called boot, typing enter just hangs it); the 
> other computer just doesn't see it as bootable at all.
>
> Both these computers boot fine from another USB stick (a Debian live 
> image copied to the stick with dd), so it's not the case that they 
> just can't boot from a USB stick.  Of course it could just be a 
> hardware problem with the second stick perhaps, but it mounts fine and 
> appears to be intact (I can read the docs, for example).  I just can't 
> boot from it to test it out.
>
> Sorry, I failed :/
>
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