I actually managed to get LMDE to boot from my USB stick. ![]() One thing to note is that the normal Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu) has more trouble than LMDE (based on Debian) on my PC, when booting to a USB stick which has had the ISO burned to it. It's just that Linux Mint (as well as other OS's more advanced than Freedos, such as Android-x86) is giving me trouble. And I know my USB device is bootable in general, as I've been able to boot it to Freedos, which I installed with Rufus by the way (and in fact it comes built-in with Rufus, no external disk images required). It's basically "the universal disk-image-to-usb-stick burner software". Is Etcher really better? I haven't had any more luck with it than with Rufus, and I think Rufus is considered the widely accepted solution for burning an image to a USB stick. and sadly the developers of Linux Mint didn't foresee this scenario of a USB boot, and thus didn't configure the boot scripts to handle it correctly.Īny help on how to correctly create a Linux Mint USB Live disk, and how to correctly boot from it once created, be MUCH APPRECIATED.ĭon't use it myself, burn my iso's with mint. So when I burn the ISO to a USB, the USB isn't looking like the optical drive the scripts expect, and it isn't even appearing as the primary harddrive (/dev/sda or /dev/hda). When my USB drive is booted from, even though it's the boot drive, it still sees the internal drive as /dev/sda or /dev/hda, and it sees my USB stick as /dev/sdb or /dev/hdb. My HUNCH is that it's expecting to boot the ISO from the CD/DVD, or boot a normal installed copy from /dev/sda or /dev/hda. I've tried using other USB ports on my computer, in case some are better at performing a USB boot, and still it won't work.Įither Rufus SUCKS at making a bootable USB (at least for Linux Mint), or my PC isn't capable of a proper USB boot, or Linux Mint was never meant to boot from USB (only intended to ever boot from an optical drive or the computer's main harddrive). I've even tried putting USB boot as the first boot option in the legacy only mode, but it still doesn't work. But no combination of settings I use makes it boot. I've tried changing other firmware settings in my computer including disabling hardware virtualization (useful only if you are going to be running a virtual machine like VBox, which I'm not), and other fancy-sounding features. When legacy only mode is enabled it boots from the USB stick without pressing F12, but this of course just means it boots to the Linux boot menu, but sadly it won't properly boot Linux Mint itself from there, even when my PC's firmware is set to legacy only mode.Īlso I've tried setting some of the other fancy settings in my PC's firmware, and no matter which option I select here it always fails to boot Linux Mint. I've tried only disabling secure-boot (needed as a basic requirement for USB boot anyway) and even selecting the firmware type to be legacy only (default firmware type when secure-boot is disabled is UEFI+legacy, which lets you press F12 to get a menu to select USB boot). I've tried several things in my computer's firmware. Yet it always seems to be mounting something that is failing, and kicking me out of the boot process back to a text-based interface. The strange thing is, it is able to access the very drive that it is complaining it can't access, or it wouldn't land me at a text-based interface at all (it would be a completely black screen). And when it shows a console log it always seems to be that it is having trouble mounting the drive that would be needed for proper bootup. However, no matter which boot mode I select, and no matter which version of Linux Mint I use (I've tried versions of Linux Mint as early as early as version 10, and as recent as version 18.2), it always kicks me to a text-based interface called interimfs. I manage to get all the way to the boot menu where I can select Linux Mint, or Linux Mint Compatibility, or other boot modes. Every single time I try to just burn the ISO to my USB stick, everything works in terms of burning, but when booting from it it won't work. ![]() I'm using the latest version of Rufus, which at the time of me writing this is Rufus 3.10. My main OS is Windows, and I'm using a program called Rufus to try to burn the ISO to a USB stick (not to a DVD disk).
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