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Default Won't boot from thumb Drive
I copied the image from the CD onto the thumb drive but it won't boot from it at all...

Am I missing something...???
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does the flash drive definitely have the boot sector files?
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did you hit (mash) F8 while booting? that brings you to the BIOS menu where you can select the boot device
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Yeah, you have to tell it to boot from USB if you're not already.

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does the flash drive definitely have the boot sector files?
Like Cog mentioned. A copy of a CD does not include the boot files. What kind of CD?
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you cant just copy the iso to the drive and hope it works...


heres a link to a site that can help - http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
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does the flash drive definitely have the boot sector files?
I guess that's where I went wrong, the CD has it but the thumb drive doesn't...

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did you hit (mash) F8 while booting? that brings you to the BIOS menu where you can select the boot device
Yeah, on this rig it's ESC and I saw the thumb drive on the list but it keeps saying "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter"

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Yeah, you have to tell it to boot from USB if you're not already.
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Like Cog mentioned. A copy of a CD does not include the boot files. What kind of CD?
The CD is the Linux image that I used to load Linux on the other machines, I figured I could copy the exact same thing onto a thumb drive and be good, guess that's not the case...

What do I have to do to get it to work?

I've never tried this before...I guess I did something wrong thus far hehe...

Thanks for the fast replies I really want to get this to work...

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you cant just copy the iso to the drive and hope it works...


heres a link to a site that can help - http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
I am checking that site now, seems to be EXACTLY what I needed...It seems I went wrong thinking just copying isn't the right way to do it...

Now to egt this set up on the rest of them...Thanks all for your help...
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