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

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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 :/