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    From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Mon Apr 12 17:52:55 2021
    Please can someone point me to an idiot's guide to creating a USB stick
    that will load e.g.SystemRescue onto my new PC? I've tried Ventoy, which created an encouraging 2 partitions on the stick. Following their
    instruction, I copied the SystemRescue ISO into partition 1, but it
    doesn't seem to be recognised (mind you, I'm having some trouble
    understanding the BIOS boot options)
    TIA

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Tue Apr 13 01:53:55 2021
    On 13/4/21 2:52 am, Grimble wrote:
    Please can someone point me to an idiot's guide to creating a USB stick
    that will load e.g.SystemRescue onto my new PC? I've tried Ventoy, which created an encouraging 2 partitions on the stick. Following their instruction, I copied the SystemRescue ISO into partition 1, but it
    doesn't seem to be recognised (mind you, I'm having some trouble understanding the BIOS boot options)
    TIA



    I use "isodumper".



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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Tue Apr 13 03:14:51 2021
    On 4/12/21 9:52 AM, Grimble wrote:
    Please can someone point me to an idiot's guide to creating a USB stick
    that will load e.g.SystemRescue onto my new PC? I've tried Ventoy, which created an encouraging 2 partitions on the stick. Following their instruction, I copied the SystemRescue ISO into partition 1, but it
    doesn't seem to be recognised (mind you, I'm having some trouble understanding the BIOS boot options)
    TIA


    Turn off Secure Boot in the BIOS.

    bliss
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  • From Wes Newell@2:250/1 to All on Tue Apr 13 03:42:44 2021
    Reply-To: wes@nowhere.net

    On 4/12/21 11:52 AM, Grimble wrote:
    Please can someone point me to an idiot's guide to creating a USB stick
    that will load e.g.SystemRescue onto my new PC? I've tried Ventoy, which created an encouraging 2 partitions on the stick. Following their instruction, I copied the SystemRescue ISO into partition 1, but it
    doesn't seem to be recognised (mind you, I'm having some trouble understanding the BIOS boot options)
    TIA

    dd if=/path to dir/filename.iso of=/dev/sdx
    Where /sdx is the usb stick
    man dd
    If you want a gui solution, try multiboot.

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Tue Apr 13 03:54:56 2021
    On 13/4/21 12:14 pm, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
    On 4/12/21 9:52 AM, Grimble wrote:
    Please can someone point me to an idiot's guide to creating a USB
    stick that will load e.g.SystemRescue onto my new PC? I've tried
    Ventoy, which created an encouraging 2 partitions on the stick.
    Following their instruction, I copied the SystemRescue ISO into
    partition 1, but it doesn't seem to be recognised (mind you, I'm
    having some trouble understanding the BIOS boot options)
    TIA


    Turn off Secure Boot in the BIOS.


    I cannot remember if I did that with my bios.

    But suspect that may have been a requirement.

    What I mercifully don't remember is the horrendous time I had trying to install /boot/efi and GPT. I couldn't find a concise howto only rambling incoherent explanations about GPT and EFI. Maybe I could write one if I remembered what I did.

    It was a DVD install.

    Do not look forward to doing it ever again - but I am also sniffing
    around new motherboards. I'm clearly into self flagellation. :-(


    Do you keep notes Bobbie, or be blessed with eidetic memory?

    regards


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  • From Bobbie Sellers@2:250/1 to All on Tue Apr 13 03:57:22 2021
    On 4/12/21 9:52 AM, Grimble wrote:
    Please can someone point me to an idiot's guide to creating a USB stick
    that will load e.g.SystemRescue onto my new PC? I've tried Ventoy, which created an encouraging 2 partitions on the stick. Following their instruction, I copied the SystemRescue ISO into partition 1, but it
    doesn't seem to be recognised (mind you, I'm having some trouble understanding the BIOS boot options)
    TIA


    Are you working from Mageia or from Windows?
    In PCLinuxOS we use a script running dd called "ddcopy" and it never fails with hybrid .iso or with .img. likely it could be moved
    to the Mageia platform easily. Otherwise you could go to the System
    Rescue site and follow the instructions there.

    bliss

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Tue Apr 13 06:48:13 2021
    On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 17:52:55 +0100, Grimble wrote:
    Please can someone point me to an idiot's guide to creating a USB stick
    that will load e.g.SystemRescue onto my new PC?

    Hmm, I followed the instructions on the download screen.
    https://www.system-rescue.org/Download/
    found by clicking the USB sticks link under the
    Installation on a USB stick or internal disk paragraph.

    I also fixed grug2 to boot the iso so I did not have to hunt for the
    thumb drive or the cd. :)



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  • From Herman Viaene@2:250/1 to All on Tue Apr 13 08:46:30 2021
    Op Mon, 12 Apr 2021 17:52:55 +0100, schreef Grimble:

    Please can someone point me to an idiot's guide to creating a USB stick
    that will load e.g.SystemRescue onto my new PC? I've tried Ventoy, which created an encouraging 2 partitions on the stick. Following their instruction, I copied the SystemRescue ISO into partition 1, but it
    doesn't seem to be recognised (mind you, I'm having some trouble understanding the BIOS boot options)
    TIA

    Partition 1, as in 0, 1 or 1, 2 ????? Anyway, you have to copy into the
    second partition.

    Herman Viaene

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Tue Apr 13 16:22:52 2021
    On 13/4/21 2:52 am, Grimble wrote:
    Please can someone point me to an idiot's guide to creating a USB stick
    that will load e.g.SystemRescue onto my new PC? I've tried Ventoy, which created an encouraging 2 partitions on the stick. Following their instruction, I copied the SystemRescue ISO into partition 1, but it
    doesn't seem to be recognised (mind you, I'm having some trouble understanding the BIOS boot options)
    TIA

    Bobbie has said what I would have said. Secure Boot is Windows' way of
    making sure that you have Windows on your system somewhere. You can
    turn it off in the BIOS.Then, so far as Linux is concerned, it doesn't
    exist. You still have UEFI, but any protection you have against
    rootkits, etc, is lost. In other words, you are back exactly where you
    were before. One of the distros supplies its own "signature" so that it
    can run under Secure Boot, but AFAIK, it is the only one.

    HTH,

    Doug.

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  • From Grimble@2:250/1 to All on Wed Apr 14 17:06:47 2021
    On 12/04/2021 17:52, Grimble wrote:
    Please can someone point me to an idiot's guide to creating a USB stick
    that will load e.g.SystemRescue onto my new PC? I've tried Ventoy, which created an encouraging 2 partitions on the stick. Following their instruction, I copied the SystemRescue ISO into partition 1, but it
    doesn't seem to be recognised (mind you, I'm having some trouble understanding the BIOS boot options)
    TIA

    Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I have found the way to disable secure boot, after which I found I did indeed have a bootable
    stick, provided I choose the correct partition to boot!.
    Thanks again,

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    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64

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