Bootable USB not booting

pfmonkey · 07-10-2012, 04:52 PM

I am trying to create a bootable USB drive with the end goal of putting Puppeee on my Eeepc, but I can't get it to boot from the USB.

I suspect the problem is with the USB drive, since I can get to the menu to choose to boot from the USB, but the Eeepc boots like normal from the SSD instead every time. I tried booting from the USB on my desktop (Debian) as well, and had the same problem.

To create the bootable USB, I used

Code:

dd if=Puppee[...].iso of=/dev/sdb

and the USB was not mounted at the time.

When I tried

Code:

fdisk -l

to see if the USB was working and bootable, I got this:

Code:

Disk /dev/sdb: 2003 MB, 2003828736 bytes
62 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3844 * 512 = 1968128 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

So I can't see if it's bootable according to the table, and I'm not sure how to interpret this.

Any suggestions?

pfmonkey · 07-10-2012, 05:36 PM

Well, I haven't exactly solved it after some more messing around with it, but I did create a bootable USB by using UNetbootin instead, so the problem is not solved, but avoided...