Hopefully this'll save someone a major headache. See, in my desperation I rebooted and decided to take a look at my BIOS settings, but one thing I hadn't done before for whatever reason was booting and checking my BIOS with the Pendrive plugged in.Īfter tweaking a few minor and unrelated things, I noticed that my Pendrive was set to "auto" mode rather than "HDD" mode, I changed that, saved and exited the BIOS, rebooted, and there it was, my Lubuntu live USB with no errors working perfectly. In this example, we are working on an Ubuntu system, so we will use the Startup Disk creator application.
If you are using a Windows system, use Rufus, and for macOS, use the Disk utility. 'Prerequisites - Notes about bootability' and 'Booting the Computer from USB'I used a cheap new Thumb Drive that I bought today and it didn't work either, BUT, I managed to figure out what was going on and I am in fact, typing from my recently installed Lubuntu 13.10 machine after properly shredding all my old data and installing. To make a Live USB in your Ubuntu system, open the Startup Disk creator application. See also this link (with a couple of paragraphs about the pendrives themselves) I'm also awaiting your report from using a new pendrive. If none of these methods works, I think there is a problem either with the pendrive itself or with the cooperation of your USB system and the pendrive. etc.Īll I get is either "Boot Error" from trying to boot a Unetbootin-made live USB, or "This device isn't bootable, please insert a bootable floppy" from trying to boot a SDC-made live USB. Six hours later and about 20 attempts after, I'm losing my patience, I've tried both the included Startup Disk Creator and Unetbootin several times I've wiped the USB drive clean several times, both with the quick method and the slow method (overwriting with zeroes), I've used Gparted to format to FAT 32 etc. While on Ubuntu 13.10, I used Unetbootin to make a live USB with Lubuntu 13.10, and it worked the very first time I rebooted, but after checking the "disc" for errors, there was one file found no problem, I decided to boot normally, format the USB drive with the Disks utility, and try Unetbootin once more.
I was previously on Windows XP, so I always used Universal USB Installer with 100% success rate, including the last time I used it to install my current OS, Ubuntu 13.10. Find and click 'Tools' and choose 'Create Emergency Disk'. Launch and install EaseUS Todo Backup on the Computer B. Prepare a USB drive which can be written and read.
ISO file for x86 systems and performed the obligatory MD5 checksum, which was successful, as in, no errors. If you tend to create the emergency disk to a USB drive, connect it, and set it as target location to save the ISO image. I'll try to contact source of ISO to see if Ubuntu will officially work with it.Long story short, I've tried more than a few Linux distros over the past couple of weeks and I finally decided to stay on Lubuntu I downloaded the 13.10. That would somwhat explain why I am getting "hippo ISO" - which is definitely "Ubuntu" frinedly and was used before.
I did not want to advertiser the download - but you have a point - if it is "ubuntu" friendly. What are you using to make the bootable USB stick? Make sure usb-creator-gtk is installed which you can get through the synaptic package manager - you have to open the creator first so the program can see the file - (it does look at the Downloads folder by default but it can be changed by clicking the "Other" button) - If it does not see it then the ISO is not compatible with the Startup Disk Creator - in other words it maybe a bad download - the ISO must be Ubuntu compliant before the ISO will load in the USB Creator.