[GLLUG] Bootable USB Stick

[Jason L. Froebe]

Some laptops have trouble booting from USB thumb drives over 4gb.  Try a
different thumb drive

Jason

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015, 11:49 AM Marr <wm33 at att.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 22:47:20 -0500
> Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I still haven't created a bootable flash drive, but not for want of
> > trying.
>
> Chick,
>
> Forgive me if I missed something along the way, but have you ever
> successfully booted that specific laptop with that specific (8GB) USB
> stick?  If not, I'd humbly suggest that you temporarily abandon the
> effort to boot a distro installation ISO and start with something
> easier to test, like the (58 KB) MemTest86+ "Pre-Compiled Bootable
> ISO":
>
>    http://www.memtest.org/download/5.01/memtest86+-5.01.iso.gz
>
> Testing that ISO's bootability with your specific hardware should be a
> lot faster and easier than a full distro's ISO.
>
> HTH... As always, good luck!
>
> Regards,
> Bill
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