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beetlejuice7

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Registered: 2012-02-28

Posts: 49

Trouble booting from USB image

I recently built a new server (woo, first build)
- SuperMicro MBD-X9SCL+-F
- Intel Core i3-2100 Sandy Bridge 3.1GHz

I was able to install ubuntu from a USB stick without issue, but then decided I wanted to go with Arch instead and followed the instructions in the wiki for creating a bootable usb.  The bios doesn't seem to recognize the arch usb stick as a valid boot option, however.  I was sure to write to /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1 after some googling it seemed like this was a common mistake -- still no go.  I then installed unetbootin and used that -- this time the BIOS recognized the USB drive but still refused to boot.  I know it should be possible to boot from USB because after all I installed ubuntu using this method.  Any suggestions?

Oh yeah, I tried the archboot iso as well, no luck - not recognized as a valid boot option.

Last edited by beetlejuice7 (2012-03-05 13:55:37)

Silex89

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From: Osorno, Los Lagos - Chile

Registered: 2011-10-16

Posts: 179

Re: Trouble booting from USB image

Hi!

Just to set things clear: The stick's filesystem is FAT right?. Most BIOS don't support other filesystems (like NTFS, EXT2-4, etc) if I remember right....

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beetlejuice7

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Registered: 2012-02-28

Posts: 49

Re: Trouble booting from USB image

Disk /dev/sdb: 2017 MB, 2017525248 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1924 cylinders, total 3940479 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1ce76b78

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           0     1376255      688128   17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb1: 704 MB, 704643072 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 672 cylinders, total 1376256 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1ce76b78

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1p1   *           0     1376255      688128   17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: Trouble booting from USB image

Try Rufus.

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beetlejuice7

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Registered: 2012-02-28

Posts: 49

Re: Trouble booting from USB image

Screw it just installed over lan