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Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work



On Sun 02 Jun 2013 at 12:14:27 -0500, JC wrote:

> I am hesitant to post to this list because perusing some of the entries
> show that the answers are technical way over my head, but here we go.

It's not just the answers which are technical, it's the questions also. :)

> I have made a bootable USB stick(32G) with Debian 7 i386 using my Ubuntu
> 10.04 system on my laptop which has an Intel chip.   It appeared to work OK.
> 
> However, when I try to boot from it, I get some errors.
> 
> First error is "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt".  That file is in the
> isolinux folder on the USB drive.
> 
> Then comes the copyright notice followed by the patent notice.
> 
> Next it discovers the ethernet controller.
>  After that it thinks for a while and says "no boot filename received" then
> 
> PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM
> 
> And waits for me to CTRL-ALT-DEL.
> 
> I have created 6 different USB drives from 6 different versions of linux
> and this is the firsst one that didn't work.

Now for your starter for 10 points. How did you create the bootable USB
stick?


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