Create a Bootable USB Pen Drive

[Nils Kassube]

Amichai Rotman wrote:
> I have a 50MB ISO file I would like to "burn" to a 65MB Pen Drive.

Is that something like a stripped down Ubuntu image?

> $ sudo dd if=/pathe/to/ISOfile of=/dev/pendrive_device
>
> I got the contents on the pen drive, but when I try to boot from it
> (and my BIOS supports it) - it claimes there is no system disk.

I think a normal bootable iso image expects to boot from CD but not from 
a disk. However the USB pen drive is a disk for the kernel. So you 
would have to adjust the boot device.

Further more with both my machines which support booting from USB there 
are 2 possible methods to try booting from USB but only one of them 
works. I can set the BIOS to boot from USB device then (CD/DVD then) 
disk - that method works. I can also put the USB device at another 
position in the boot sequence and select it from the BIOS boot menu but 
that method doesn't work (but it works for CD/DVD). So maybe your 
problem is related to the BIOS settings. Can you check with a "normal" 
Ubuntu boot disk installed to a pen drive?

I'm not sure if these links apply - and maybe you know them already:
<http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/>
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent>
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromUSB>


Nils