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Install from USB stick fails

2015-04-08
2015-04-27
  • Garrett Hylltun

    Garrett Hylltun - 2015-04-08

    Tried both the 0.5x and 1.0RC and both suffer the same failure. I used Unetbootin to install the ISO to the USB stick. It boots up and the installer is started, but when it detects hardware it fails on CDROM drive, regardless whether I have an IDE, SATA or USB CD/DVD drive. It fails to recognize that it's installing from the USB stick and continues to think it's installing from a CDROM that it can't find. I have no blank discs at this time to burn the ISO to disc.

     
  • Q4OS Team

    Q4OS Team - 2015-04-08

    The failure seems to be hardware specific, as we are not able to reproduce. Please create new bug report https://sourceforge.net/p/q4os/tickets/, specify your hardware.

    Is there anybody else, who suffers similar issue ?

     
  • Garrett Hylltun

    Garrett Hylltun - 2015-04-10

    Found the problem.

    When using Unetbootin and testing more than one distro, be sure to completely wipe the usb stick clean with each use. Be sure to show hidden files and delete all files. If you do not, you will end up with a tainted install of whatever distro you are trying to install.

    DO NOT RELY ON UNETBOOTIN TO DELETE THE FILES

     

    Last edit: Garrett Hylltun 2015-04-10
  • Warren W. Weiss

    Warren W. Weiss - 2015-04-27

    I have a similar problem with a Unetbootin-created boot USB stick.

    Upon boot, it displays an error, then drops to a grub rescue prompt:

    error: file '/grub2/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found
    Entering rescue mode...
    grub rescue>

    Before creating the boot stick, I completely erased and formatted it. I'll try again with a different file system type.

     

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