Creating Live usb device

Support & Help Requests
1

Hi,

For a few days now i have been trying to start ubuntu and other linux based os from a pen drive without any luck. What happen was that my HD crash and i wanted to start by the pen drive in a non persistent way.

I have installed Rufus and burn a few images for testing and the only operating system that did do anything was CentOS. All the rest wasn’t possible to autostart will booting.

What seems to be the problem? I will have a shot with the Ubuntu Mate but i expect that the result will be the same. Nothing. Any sugestions?

2

What OS are you creating the live USB with?

3

It must be windows since there is no rufus for linux. It only downloads as an .exe file.

4

Yes i’m using windows but simply any ubuntu iso image doesn’t work.

I will test this distro but i think it won’t work either

5

See this link for instructions on how to use rufus - https://www.techrepublic.com/article/pro-tip-use-rufus-to-create-a-bootable-usb-drive-to-install-almost-any-os/

6

Yes, i have done all the steps with other iso images. Simply it doesn’t boot, only CentOS works but after a few moments loading the kernel it crashes. I will give it a try with this mate version and reply back…

7

It would be advantageous to know if your present ‘crashed’ hard drive has an efi boot process. If it does, this impacts how you should write an ubuntu iso to a flash drive and expect it to boot. See rufus directions.

8

You could try diffrent software to burn the iso’s

I use Etcher https://etcher.io/ to burn ISO’s images to USB pen sticks. Etcher is cross platform works on Linux / Mac / Windows.

you could try a different USB memory stick. I’ve had problems with cheap USB sticks with not booting before.

9

Aside from Rufus i have tried other program such as YUMI or MultiBoot and they didn’t work either. This distro Ubuntu Mate doesn’t even burn the image, something with a .sys file that is downloaded but fail to burn.

I have tried so far:
CentOS-6.9-x86_64-LiveDVD
kali-linux-2016.1-i386
KNOPPIX_V7.0.5CD-2012-12-21-EN
linuxmint-17.1-cinnamon-32bit
linuxmint-18.2-cinnamon-32bit
pipplware_v6.0
slacko-6.3.0
ubuntu-14.04.5-desktop-i386
ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64
and
ubuntu-mate-16.04.3-desktop-i386