Creating Ubuntu USB sticks

[Rodney Dawes]

No, it fails to boot even with legacy mode, and just throws up a grub
command prompt. The currently installed Ubuntu boots just fine in UEFI
mode with secure boot disabled though; but doesn't help me to reinstall.


On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 14:35 +0000, Shane O'Sullivan wrote:
> That could be an issue with the specific laptop rather than your usb
> creation method. Some UEFI are locked to Windows only or Windows and
> RHEL only. Such as with http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20187.html
> 
> On 22 January 2015 at 14:23, Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes at canonical.com>
> wrote:
>         I've been trying to create one recently, under 14.04 running
>         the
>         lts-utopic kernel. It seems the old problem of flushing is
>         back. When I
>         run "dd if=ubuntu-14.04.1-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdg bs=4096" it
>         exits almost
>         immediately, and then the LED on the USB spends the next
>         several minutes
>         flashing constantly as if data is being written. When it is
>         done
>         however, it seems I can't actually boot from it.
>         
>         I want to re-install my laptop, using UEFI only (ideally with
>         secure
>         boot, but I don't know if it is possible), and full disk
>         encryption, but
>         I just can't seem to get a working bootable USB stick
>         made. :-/
>         
>         
>         On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 12:03 +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote:
>         > Hello everybody,
>         >
>         > in the past few weeks I saw the discussion about what was
>         the best way
>         > to create Ubuntu USB sticks a couple of times. It looks like
>         USB Creator
>         > and Testdrive didn't get as much love as they used to do in
>         the past
>         > (please correct me if I'm wrong). I also noticed that
>         > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity8DesktopIso under "Creating the
>         image"
>         > mentions using "Disks" and heard that it's more reliable.
>         >
>         > Would it make sense to start updating our documentation? Is
>         this what we
>         > all can agree on?
>         >
>         > The following pages (at the very least) would need an
>         update:
>         >
>         >  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Jams/Testing
>         >  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UsingDevelopmentReleases
>         >  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Testdrive
>         >  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/DevelopmentSetup
>         >
>         http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu
>         >
>         > Have a great day,
>         >  Daniel
>         >
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