When I try to run TuxBoot or unetbootin all I get is a screen with a grey background.

I get the following:

libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10
Extension: 130 (MIT-SHM)
Minor opcode: 1 (X_ShmAttach)
Resource id: 0x13d
X Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
Extension: 130 (MIT-SHM)
Minor opcode: 5 (X_ShmCreatePixmap)
Resource id: 0x3a0000d
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
Resource id: 0x3a0000e
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
Resource id: 0x3a0000e
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
Major opcode: 54 (X_FreePixmap)
Resource id: 0x3a0000e
X Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
Extension: 130 (MIT-SHM)
Minor opcode: 2 (X_ShmDetach)
Resource id: 0x3a0000d

Any help appreciated.

Hi:

The last time I tried using unetbootin it didn't work properly and left me with a black screen.

Are you trying to make a usb flash drive bootable with a Linux .iso?

And, are you using a Windows machine to do this?

Thank you for your response.

I was trying to make a gparted bootable USB. I needed it to do a repair on a friends Windows computer. I run Ubuntu and was using my Ubuntu laptop to attempt to make the USB. I finely gave up and just made a selfboot DVD.

Ubuntu has a built in tool to make bootable USB thumb drives BUT...it only works for Ubuntu images if I remember correctly. I think I have tried to make images of other distros and it refused. Not surprising...

The method suggested by ov10fac will certainly work.

So basically you have a GParted Live DVD?

These are the instructions I tried. I decided to go the DVD route because it was much easier than going the manual approach which I have never had much luck with.

Yes and it worked perfectly to fix my friends computer. It was a laptop running Windows in a 50GB partition which was full. There was another 300 GB partition but windows would not let me use it to expand the main partition into it. I thought that was strange, but when I ran GParted against it I found the 300GB partition was NSF. That was really strange since the laptop was supposedly brand new when he bought it. Anyway I cleaned everything up and he now has a 300+ Partition for his windows OS

That's great news-

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