[xubuntu-users] USB boot disc?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 06:45 +0000, James Freer wrote:
> > Does your BIOS recognize the flashdrive?
> 
> How do i check that? I've forgotten a lot of the commands having been
> ill for a year. Much appreciate the reply.

Hi,

first of all I want to second Kaj Haulrich reply. Ventoy is terrific.
You only need to copy an ISO or several ISO to an Ventoy USB stick,
that's all. If you want to, you can even make a live Xubuntu persistent,
that's what I've done. However, even Ventoy has got it's pitfalls. On my
old Intel machine I can use ext4 for the Ventoy USB stick, on my new
Intel machine, I have to stay with the default fat. I know from a power
user, author for Linux magazines, that it does not work at all on some
computers, but even he always recommends Ventoy as the first choice. In
other words, usually Ventoy works without issues and nothing else is
more comfortable than Ventoy.

I suspect that your BIOS/UEFI whatsoever thingy does recognize the USB
stick, but you need to enable booting from an USB device and/or change
the boot device order.

After turning on the computer push the F2-key or the Delete-Key again
and again. One of those keys works for almost all computers. Popular
exceptions seem to be the F1-key or the Fn+F2-key, but there are others,
as well.

What computer or motherboard do you use?

If you should have a working Linux install on you machine, then run

  sudo dmidecode -t0 -t2

and paste the output. On *buntu the name of the package containing this
command is "dmidecode", on Arch Linux it's the same package name, so
other distros probably name it "dmidecode", too.

Regards,
Ralf