unetbootin

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Matt Graham writes: 

> On 2016-10-18 11:31, Michael wrote:
>> I just put mint on a pendrive with unetbootin and I don't know if it
>> is working or not. I put the live linux distro in the thinkpad 11e,
>> start it up, and press F12.and select 'USB HDD...' but when I press
>> enter Windows10 loads. I then turned off the Linux box to test the
>> pendrive but come to find out that this computer will not boot off of
>> the USB drive.  Is there a way to test the drive?
> 
> The entire USB drive should probably be mountable as type iso9660 or udf.  
> The vast majority of things that can boot from USB drives will recognize 
> ISO images that have been dd'ed directly to the disk, and that's how you 
> usually boot from a USB drive.  unetbootin is almost certainly just doing 
> "dd if=/path/to/linux-mint-12.34.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M" behind the scenes. 
> 
> (I did see something odd a few days ago when trying to diagnose a 
> completely different problem.  I dd'ed a Gentoo net install image to a USB 
> disk, then booted the machine from that disk.  The installer loaded its 
> initrd, then said that it couldn't find the root filesystem.  I tried 
> several device names and got nowhere, though 1 of them should've worked.  
> It might have been confused by the larger-than-usual number of disks 
> attached to this machine, or might've forgotten to do "modprobe ehci-hcd". 
>  Will attempt to figure this out later.) 
> 
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