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Title: Cannot boot from USB
Post by: icyflame221 on February 04, 2017, 12:45:08 AM
Hey guys..  so I tried to boot this sparky distro, but I ran into this problem: Unable to find a medium containing a live file system (https://s30.postimg.org/cvljcf9fl/IMG_20170203_WA0022.jpg)

And here is what I've tried so far:

Nothing helped. I am on a Asrock motherboard(UEFI)  running AMD fx6300. I would appreciate it if someone posts a solution here.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Cannot boot from USB
Post by: pavroo on February 04, 2017, 12:40:20 PM
Did you check the md5/sha sum?
Did you turn the secure boot off?
Did the different iso boot ok?
Title: Re: Cannot boot from USB
Post by: Serz on February 15, 2017, 12:14:47 AM
Hello, I have the same bug. Today I've downloaded LXDE Home distro to try it on my old Dell Latitude D500. MD5 Sum is Ok. Bootable USB was created with latest Universal USB Installer... Booting stops on the same point.

I have found, that another Debian-based distros had this problem too, but my experiences are so poor, to understand it...
Title: Re: Cannot boot from USB
Post by: penguin on February 15, 2017, 08:31:31 AM
have you tried to make usb bootable using another software?
inside windows you can use Rufus also i have find that Rufus did not function some times ago with arch iso.
hmmm. have you tried to burn iso in dvd ?
Title: Re: Cannot boot from USB
Post by: blaze on February 15, 2017, 03:04:43 PM
For transfering iso file to usb on a Linux system it is best to use the dd method from the commandline.

Linux

WARNING, the following instructions will destroy any existing data on your USB stick.

Determine what device your USB is.  With your USB plugged in run:

sudo ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/*usb*

This should produce output along the lines of:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 2010-03-15 22:54 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-_USB_DISK_2.0_077508380189-0:0 -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2010-03-15 22:54 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-_USB_DISK_2.0_077508380189-0:0-part1 -> ../../sdb1

In this example output, the USB device is sdb

Now cd to where your *.iso is

cd ~/downloads

Example

sudo dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/usbdevice bs=4M; sync

lets say the iso is named mini.iso and your USB device is sdb

Example

sudo dd if=mini.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M; sync

NOTE - Be sure to understand that there is never a trailing number on the end of your /dev/sdx USB device
Title: Re: Cannot boot from USB
Post by: Serz on February 16, 2017, 12:45:41 AM
I have again created the USB bootdisc with the latest version of Rufus.
To have full functional bootdisc, it was necessary to use DD method for transfer!