http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Help! Cant boot from usb stick en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:52:01 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-26276 Tue, 27 May 2008 11:11:07 +0000 CPJames19 26276@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Thnx 4 ur time, bt after booting Linux on my usb it still seyz same thing. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-26263 Tue, 27 May 2008 07:17:36 +0000 LukeTurnbull 26263@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I see.</p> <p>Well that solves it then i did think most OS's do still prefer to be on disc when ran not USB. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-26055 Sun, 25 May 2008 15:06:21 +0000 jack7h3r1pp3r 26055@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>i have figured this out. you don't actually boot from the usb you boot from the live cd them you save you stuff on the usb stick. i read it here:</p> <p><a href='http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/01/25/usb-x-ubuntu-610/'>http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/01/25/usb-x-ubuntu-610/</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-25988 Sat, 24 May 2008 22:36:09 +0000 CPJames19 25988@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>followed instruction from <a href='http://www.pendrivelinux.com/'>http://www.pendrivelinux.com/</a> also tried testing my usb by making a bootable memtest frm my usb but got same results </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-25916 Sat, 24 May 2008 08:54:51 +0000 jd2066 25916@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>So you pressed F12, selected USB Disk (or similar) and got the above message? If so that is odd. How did you install Linux on to the USB Disk? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-25915 Sat, 24 May 2008 08:47:10 +0000 CPJames19 25915@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>@jd2066. i did an then it came up wiv that message. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-25913 Sat, 24 May 2008 08:24:15 +0000 jd2066 25913@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Depending on what your BIOS boot settings are you may need to press a key like F12 and select the USB disk to boot to it. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-25912 Sat, 24 May 2008 07:14:18 +0000 CPJames19 25912@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>@Jack. I have Linux installed on my usb stick and it should be able to boot from that though, so why isnt it booting from the stick? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-25891 Sat, 24 May 2008 02:23:50 +0000 jack7h3r1pp3r 25891@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>i'm not sure but it should be where the os is installed so if you go into your main os you should be able to do it from inside of that os then try to load it. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-25866 Fri, 23 May 2008 18:58:35 +0000 CPJames19 25866@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>if pressed f12 to access the one-time bootloader, does it make a difference? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-25850 Fri, 23 May 2008 17:16:30 +0000 jack7h3r1pp3r 25850@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>did you happen to setup the boot loader at all, this could be the prob. if you didn't do it. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-25836 Fri, 23 May 2008 14:16:49 +0000 CPJames19 25836@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>it then said no operating system found </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-25835 Fri, 23 May 2008 14:15:41 +0000 CPJames19 25835@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>yep </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-25833 Fri, 23 May 2008 14:10:47 +0000 jack7h3r1pp3r 25833@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>did you try pressing a key to continue any way </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-25832 Fri, 23 May 2008 14:02:28 +0000 CPJames19 25832@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>i seyz the same messgage 'remove cd or removable device, press key to continue' </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-25826 Fri, 23 May 2008 13:31:36 +0000 LukeTurnbull 25826@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Dont Remove The USB pendrive just press they key to continue. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/help-cant-boot-from-usb-stick#post-25814 Fri, 23 May 2008 10:26:01 +0000 CPJames19 25814@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Ok...so I've put Linux Ubunut (installed) on my usb stick put I restarted my pc select usb storage from my dell laptop boot order then message displayed 'remove cds and removable devices, press key to continue' then it says no operating found even though i reinsert my usb stick </p>