Il giorno Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:43:04 -0400 Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 07:25:48AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: >> Le 25/06/2018 à 20:23, Hendrik Boom a écrit : >>>I used dd to copy the installer iso to a USB stck on my old laptop: >>> >>>dd bs=4M if=devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_netinst.iso of=/dev/sdb >>>status=progress && sync >>> >>>Then I moved the USB stick to my new Purism laptop, powered it up, >>>pressed esacpe to get a boot menu, and the USB stick was not recognised >>>as a boot device. >>> >> >Is there something that needs to be done to the ISO before putting it on >>>the USB stick? Or is the dd command wrong? I remember that years ago >>>it had to be modified somehow in order to boot, but I thought that had >>>been fixed long long ago. Something like prefixing it with a >>>recognisable boot record? >>> >>>Sorry for not testing this in the beta days, but I didn't have the new >> >computer yet. >>> >> >> It seems you did it all well. Either your BIOS does not support >> reading an iso9660 filesystem from an USB stick, or you just need to >> allow it to boot from USB (in the BIOS menu). BTW, sync is useless: >> dd is a synchronous connand, AFAIK. > > It will boot the Purism installer from a USB stick if I use the same > steps, starting wth the Purism ISO file, of course. > > So there is something else going on. If you didn't do it already, try to boot Purism from the same USB stick. Alessandro _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
