[conspire] bootable USB

[Leo P]

Have you tried both usb 2 and usb 3 keys?  My current older X58
motherboard's BIOS does not see my usb 3 key if it is plugged into one of
the motherboard's usb 3 ports, but it does see it and boot from it when the
key is plugged into one of the motherboard's usb 2 ports.  You should be
able to see the key in the BIOS menu whether it is bootable or not.  My
desktop uses F11 to bring up the boot device menu while my laptop uses F12.

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Paul Zander <paulz at ieee.org> wrote:

> I downloaded several live .ISO files with the expectation of "test drive"
> before doing install.  I bought several new USB sticks for the purpose.
>
> However, I can't seem to make a thumb drive bootable.
>
> On a Linux machine I did used dd to write to the USB stick.
>   dd if=debian-live-8.2.0-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso of=/dev/sdh1 bs=4M ; sync
>
>
> A listing the directory on the USB drive showed several files and
> directories.  I had not just copied the .iso file.
>
> ls -l Debian\ jessie\ 20150908-21\:50/
> total 586
> -r--r--r-- 1 paulz paulz    133 Sep  8 13:50 autorun.inf
> lr-xr-xr-x 1 paulz paulz      1 Sep  8 13:41 debian -> .
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 paulz paulz   2048 Sep  8 13:41 dists
> -r--r--r-- 1 paulz paulz 180335 Sep  8 13:50 g2ldr
> -r--r--r-- 1 paulz paulz   8192 Sep  8 13:50 g2ldr.mbr
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 paulz paulz   2048 Sep  8 13:50 install
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 paulz paulz   2048 Sep  8 13:50 isolinux
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 paulz paulz   2048 Sep  8 13:50 live
> -r--r--r-- 1 paulz paulz  28165 Sep  8 13:50 md5sum.txt
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 paulz paulz   2048 Sep  8 13:41 pool
> -r--r--r-- 1 paulz paulz 368480 Sep  8 13:50 setup.exe
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 paulz paulz   2048 Sep  8 13:50 tools
> -r--r--r-- 1 paulz paulz    228 Sep  8 13:50 win32-loader.ini
>
>
> However, after rebooting the computer and remembering which key to press
> to change boot order, the thumb drive was not listed as a choice.
>
> I also tried the utility UNetbootin on a Windoz machine with similar
> results?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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