On Sat, 02 Apr 2016 21:29:23 +0530 Akhil Krishnan S <akhilkrishn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list, > > Recently I tried to reinstall Debian in my Dell Inspiron system by making > bootable USB. (Used both dd command and unetbootin) Please reproduce the exact command you used. It should be something along the lines of: # dd if=debian.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M followed by a sync. > But my system doesn't considering it and booting direct to hard disk. (Of > course, boot priority of USB is greater than HDD) Is there a "boot override" option in your BIOS settings? Could you use that to override the boot order and directly specify a USB boot? > Result is same when tried with Arch also. But when I tried with some older > versions of both, works perfectly. What's wrong with my system. What is "older" about these previous media? The images you used to create them? The media itself (USB, CD)? > Thanks in advance. Try and re-download the image (I assume you are using an amd64 system): $ wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso If your connection cuts out and the download stops mid-way, run this: $ wget -c http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso Then insert your USB media, and unmount it: $ umount /dev/sdb* changing /dev/sdb* to whatever drive letter it actually gets assigned to (i.e. /dev/sdc*). Now write the image to the drive: # dd if=debian-8.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M $ sync Now remove the drive and try boot with it ("boot override" if possible). If you follow these steps to the letter, and the problem persists, then it is a hardware fault.
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