On Tuesday, 1 January 2019 03:15:20 GMT Jack wrote: > On 2018.12.31 21:20, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 31 December 2018 19:01:16 GMT Jack wrote: > > > Couldn't you just dd it to a USB drive (without needing to mount the > > > iso first) and then mount the drive? > > > > I did do that, then tried to boot the USB drive. It wouldn't boot. > > Why didn't it boot? Sorry if you said, and I missed it.
No, I didn't say, but I should have. The BIOS didn't recognise it as a bootable device. I suspect hardware problems on that machine, a 32-bit, single-core Atom, and I have a new SSD in the post, so I'm not too worried about it yet. > My thought is that after copying/dd'ing to the usb drive, mount the > drive, and play with the grub config file, or whatever, to deal with > whatever stops it from booting. You could blacklist modules, or add > boot parameters, or ..... Of course, if you don't know what's > actually causing the problem, it's harder to avoid. > > Maybe you'll figure it out in a New Year's miracle! Hah! :) -- Regards, Peter.
