SD-Image To Bootable USB for Notebook: Pi -> Notebook

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Hi,

I couldn't find any answer in the forum so far, maybe the question is too simple.

Currently I am working on a Raspberry Pi 4 B

  • Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS / Codename: focal

I made a backup of the SD with Win32DiskManager.

I tried to make a bootable USB flash drive with Etcher and the backup-img of the SD.

After booting a notebook with the USB flash drive the message

"This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and press any key to try again..."

is shown.

Is it even possible to use the image of the SD to make a bootable USB flash drive?

Kindly Regards

Jonas

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what type of notebook are you trying to boot with that image?

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but generally I don't think you can just boot a backup of your system on another device, maybe from the sd card, but if the laptop is not an arm laptop it wouldn't work at all, and writing the backup to a usb would do nothing even for your pi possibly unless you had the right boot setup on the usb

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Hi Bernie,

it is an Acer Aspire 5740G.

Okay, thank you very much for the quick answer.

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A Raspberry PI ubuntu mate version is designated only for ARM processors, the SD card that the RPi uses as disk with / mount point doesn't have the boot flag that your laptop need to see for booting from it. Even if you set up this flag, it will not boot.

If you are trying to boot UM from USB on your RPi, you can read a bit more in this topic :

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