booting problem from gigabyte motherboard solved

[Jim]

A few months ago I had trouble with my old Gigabyte motherboard booting 
from a USB stick.  I had been getting around it using the Plop 
bootloader on a CD.  Tonight I found a solution.  I found a program 
called Etcher.  I used it to create a bootable USB stick which booted 
the first time I tried it.

Get it here https://www.balena.io/etcher/

I checked it out with KDE partition manager which said it had a 3.22 MB 
FAT16 partition with the remainder of the 2GB stick listed as unknown.  
Cfdisk reported the following:

                     Boot    start    end            sectors size        
ID    type

/dev/sdf1    *            0         1218859    1218560 595M     0        
Empty

/dev/sdf2                 424      7023            6600 3.2M     ef    
EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

Free Space             8192     3913727    3905536    1.9G


The Partition Magic ISO I used is 595MiB (623,902,720 bytes).

I passed this on in the event someone else finds it useful.