CrunchBang Linux

tomet

Member

Registered: 2013-12-25

Posts: 15

Live boot from USB doesn't work

Hello everyone!

After using Mint for a while and having tried Crunchbang on my netbook, I now want to install it on my main PC (cause it's awesome ).

To try out whether all hardware is supported and to see how #! looks on a large screen, I wanted to live boot from USB first. That however fails (it hasn't on my netbook and I've tried to USB-sticks). I tried it both with Unetbootin and with win32diskimager which was recommended in some other forum post. Both don't work.

It's not like it's not working at all. I get to the point where it asks me to select between LiveBoot, Install etc. I click on LiveBoot (or whatever it's called). Then it starts to load stuff and displaysthat in a terminal like maner (similar to what it looks like when #! boots). I always get to a point when it looks like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ji08m45oitzmu … .02.35.png Then the screen goes black and noothing happens for a while and I have to force stop my PC using the physical on/off-button.

Can anyone halp me please? I'd be very thankful.

Cheers, Tony

Last edited by tomet (2013-12-27 15:01:42)

ratcheer

#! Junkie

From: central Alabama

Registered: 2013-07-23

Posts: 297

Re: Live boot from USB doesn't work

Yes, copy the iso to the usbstick device (not a partition) using dd. E.g., "dd if=<the iso file> of=/dev/sdh bs=4M".

Tim