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kindahero
Asked: 2012-04-30 10:19:47 +0800 CST

12.04 usb install "boot error"

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I downloaded 12.04 64bit, I checked with md5. Seems okay. made bootable usb with usb creater.

Now if try to boot up from live usb. I just get "boot error". Nothing else.

nothing else. googled around. nothing comes out.

UPDATE: some additional info.

  • The usb manufacture is sony.
  • it is fat32 partitioned.
  • Most importantly I could install 12.04 on other systems by same usb.
  • Yes, I definitely setup my Bios boot order to look for USB disk first.
boot installation 12.04 boot-failure

4 Answers

  1. I don't think this has to do with the usb start up disk but with the BIOS.

    Check out: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1042487 for a user with a similar problem he fixed it by:

    go to Bios Boot Menu...
    Search for ' USB Mass Storage Emulation type'
    Default:<Auto>
    Change it to:<All Fixed Disc>
    or something similar

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  2. Try to use ext4 instead of fat32. If it still doesn't work, try unetbootin to get a Live-USB.

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  3. I just experienced a similar error. And I think the reason lays in the way Sony formats the usb, or in my case the sd-card. I never had any problems with the card getting read by Ubuntu, but after a format inside the Sonyphotocamera, i could not read it.

    The program Disk Utility showed the card, formated as fat32, and after formatting it to fat, I could read it with no problems.

    I would suggest, dont use a windows file system when installing a linux file system.

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  4. Solution: The problem is not in Ubuntu or Live USB creator softwares...the problem is in ur bios settings...

    go to Bios Boot Menu... Search for ' USB Mass Storage Emulation type' Default: Change it to: or something similar

    This was the Bios of Intel DP35DP MainBoard with P35 Chipset... Right Now i am working from a USB Ubuntu !!!...

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