[Live-demo] [OSGeo] #863: bootable USB creation issues

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#863: bootable USB creation issues
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 Reporter:  kalxas   |       Owner:  live-demo@…              
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  major    |   Milestone:                           
Component:  LiveDVD  |    Keywords:  5.5 5.0                  
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 We got 2 reports on this issue from mailing list:

 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.
 >


 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.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/863>
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