I downloaded the MATE iso, but it's not booting.
I get the grub screen with the 2 entries, when I select the first entry it starts to boot then fails.
What's the recommended procedure to create the bootable usb drive?

Thanks
Len

First check the BIOS or UEFI to make sure that it is possible to boot from a USB drive on your machine. Some hardware will not boot USB drives and some hardware will only boot some of their USB ports and not the rest.

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Steve Stites

I install about 15 distros a week with the computer, all from usb mostly using the dd command in terminal.
Just wondering if the Arya method is different.

dd should work. Can you boot into the second option in the menu - debug mode and post the errors if any here. You get grub menu if you boot in EFI mode. Can you try booting into legacy mode using the same USB. This time you should see a blue menu of isolinux. Try booting using the same again both into the first option as well as the debug mode. Sometimes a boot failure happens for me while using usbs. If I do a vfat formatting and retry dd. It usually works. You may try that as well. One last thing. Are you trying the 32 bit or 64 bit?

http://etcher.io There are 64bit and 32bit Linux AppImages to use for burning USB Flash Drives and SD Cards. Graphical and Safe! Works on Linux, MACs, and Windows, maybe later on FreeBSD

http://unetbootin.org Unetbootin also works on Linux, Windows, and MACs

http://rufus.akeo.ie Rufus.exe is a 1.5Megabyte single .EXE file that works fast and easy on Windows Only

http://www.linuxliveusb.com LinuxLive is an windows application that works only on Windows. But can download over 350different .ISO Linux files from the internet and then burn them into a USB Flash Drive and make it bootable.

The DD command input file myISOfile.iso output file is the USB Flash drive device /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc or /dev/sdd Block Size is 1 Megabytes conv=sync means to write a full output block size padded with NULL bytes

Google FU URL Links
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...allation_media
https://www.linux.com/blog/how-burn-iso-usb-drive
https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/iso2usb

Feel Free to add more comments and corrections. The above 4 tools should get you through. Etcher.io is the newest and easiest Graphical User Interface that also protects you from overwriting your hard disk. It also verifies the data written so that you do not end up with a bad unverified burn.

Want write a CD-R disk or DVD disk under MS Windows with a .ISO file. ISO Recorder is a great utility. http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/ISOrecorder.htm

http://etcher.io There are 64bit and 32bit Linux AppImages to use for burning USB Flash Drives and SD Cards. Graphical and Safe! Works on Linux, MACs, and Windows, maybe later on FreeBSD

http://unetbootin.org Unetbootin also works on Linux, Windows, and MACs

http://rufus.akeo.ie Rufus.exe is a 1.5Megabyte single .EXE file that works fast and easy on Windows Only

http://www.linuxliveusb.com LinuxLive is an windows application that works only on Windows. But can download over 350different .ISO Linux files from the internet and then burn them into a USB Flash Drive and make it bootable.

The DD command input file myISOfile.iso output file is the USB Flash drive device /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc or /dev/sdd Block Size is 1 Megabytes conv=sync means to write a full output block size padded with NULL bytes

Google FU URL Links
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...allation_media
https://www.linux.com/blog/how-burn-iso-usb-drive
https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/iso2usb

Feel Free to add more comments and corrections. The above 4 tools should get you through. Etcher.io is the newest and easiest Graphical User Interface that also protects you from overwriting your hard disk. It also verifies the data written so that you do not end up with a bad unverified burn.

Want write a CD-R disk or DVD disk under MS Windows with a .ISO file. ISO Recorder is a great utility. http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/ISOrecorder.htm

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I use easy2boot for usb booting, it allows for multiple iso images.

In your specific case, did you verify that iso file using the checksum?