iso cd not bootable

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Wed Mar 29 15:36:58 CEST 2017


>>>>> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:51:54 +0300, Николич Роберт <rob-joy at yandex.ru> said:

    > Ive decided to try FAI for the first time (im relatively new to Linux)
    > I downloaded stretch-faicd64-small_5.3.4.iso image from site and i wrote this image to flash drive (with dd, as described)
    > However, im unable to boot from this flash drive. Why? Im i doing something wrong? How to fix it?
    > For comparison, everything goes as expected when i write normal debian iso to same device - im able to boot from it and successfully perform installation.
Does this computer has UEFI? Or is it more an old PC? Some BIOS have
different options how to boot from USB stick. There's SUB floppy, USB
hd and some other options which type of USB stick a BIOS can
boot. Maybe try the USB stick on another computer to see if it's
working correctly.

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regards Thomas


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