bootable thumb drive issue

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Wade Smart wrote:

>That seems to be a different issue.
>
>When I click F12 for boot options and select the usb option, the
>screen goes black, a "_ " comes up and would stay there for a period
>of time and then return to the boot option list. I did get several
>variations on that but the result was the same - no boot. At least
>not until I changed the legacy boot option.  Which is strange
>because my other thumb drives all boot just fine. I was playing with
>KDE Neon and it started right up, as did Kubuntu 20.04 (which I
>still had laying around). 

My notes on how I prepare my USB drives for use mention choosing a
flag for your partition when you're partitioning your drive, with
these choices:

* If your computer uses BIOS, choose legacy_boot if it's available
  (this will disable msftdata and enable legacy_boot).
* If your computer uses UEFI, choose boot if it's available (this
  will disable msftdata and enable boot and esp).

Note that msftdata is chosen for me by default, so I always have to
choose the correct flag if I want to boot from the drive.

You're welcome to my notes on how I prepare my USB sticks for use if
you'd like them, but I can't guarantee that they'll work for you -
just that they have worked for me in the past and that I'm about to
use them again on two new USB sticks that I just got, one of which
will have Kubuntu 24.10 on it. Mine end up being bootable USB sticks
with full write access without having to use sudo (which I realize is
a security issue, but they're for personal use).

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.