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I have created a live usb of Centos 6 and it boots fine on my netbook... everything works just fine but on my laptop... a Sony vaio it just says boot failure-- operating system not found. I have always installed linux on this via the USB drives on this laptop andevery port reads just fine once i boot up from the internal HDD. What can the issue be?
Did you just burn the iso directly to the drive? My laptop wont boot usb when I write them that way while my home PC will. Try reburning it to the usb using unetbootin. See if that makes a difference, does for me.
OK i have now finally gotten it to boot via the USB... its kind of sad in my opinion that I had to run to windows to make it work but thank you all for your help.
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