THANKS!!! :) 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.) > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss