Il giorno Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:43:04 -0400
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> ha scritto:

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 07:25:48AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
>> Le 25/06/2018 à 20:23, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
>>>I used dd to copy the installer iso to a USB stck on my old laptop:
>>>
>>>dd bs=4M if=devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_netinst.iso of=/dev/sdb
>>>status=progress && sync
>>>
>>>Then I moved the USB stick to my new Purism laptop, powered it up,
>>>pressed esacpe to get a boot menu, and the USB stick was not recognised
>>>as a boot device.
>>>
>> >Is there something that needs to be done to the ISO before putting it on
>>>the USB stick? Or is the dd command wrong? I remember that years ago
>>>it had to be modified somehow in order to boot, but I thought that had
>>>been fixed long long ago. Something like prefixing it with a
>>>recognisable boot record?
>>>
>>>Sorry for not testing this in the beta days, but I didn't have the new
>> >computer yet.
>>>
>>
>>     It seems you did it all well. Either your BIOS does not support
>> reading an iso9660 filesystem from an USB stick, or you just need to
>> allow it to boot from USB (in the BIOS menu). BTW, sync is useless:
>> dd is a synchronous connand, AFAIK.
>
> It will boot the Purism installer from a USB stick if I use the same
> steps, starting wth the Purism ISO file, of course.
>
> So there is something else going on.

If you didn't do it already, try to boot Purism from the same USB stick.


Alessandro