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No Boot Sector On Usb Device Drive
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Last night, I figured the boot failure problem was due to the fact the WD usb is more or less a usb 3 drive. I did a search for Debian, usb 3.0 and failure to boot and I found the following page:
How to install Ubuntu Server on a USB 3.0 stick and boot that stick
This seemed close enough to my issue. I ignored the 'installation' section. I loaded Debian via my Super Grub2 Disk 2 dvd and made the prescribed changes in the 2nd section (with the exception of plugging the drive into a usb 3 port, since my laptop doesn't have one).
I rebooted and had no luck. I wasn't surprised.
I got up this morning and turned on my laptop and was indeed surprised, this time around. I'd left my usb drive plugged in and GRUB loaded properly and launched Debian. I wanted to make sure it wasn't a fluke and rebooted. Again, I got the no boot sector error. So I shutdown completely and started the machine fresh. GRUB/Debian loaded properly.
It seems Debian boots only after a fresh start-up. I'm not sure why this is. And I'm not sure the changes I made to the install, last night, had an effect, but this setup will work.
How to install Ubuntu Server on a USB 3.0 stick and boot that stick
This seemed close enough to my issue. I ignored the 'installation' section. I loaded Debian via my Super Grub2 Disk 2 dvd and made the prescribed changes in the 2nd section (with the exception of plugging the drive into a usb 3 port, since my laptop doesn't have one).
I rebooted and had no luck. I wasn't surprised.
I got up this morning and turned on my laptop and was indeed surprised, this time around. I'd left my usb drive plugged in and GRUB loaded properly and launched Debian. I wanted to make sure it wasn't a fluke and rebooted. Again, I got the no boot sector error. So I shutdown completely and started the machine fresh. GRUB/Debian loaded properly.
It seems Debian boots only after a fresh start-up. I'm not sure why this is. And I'm not sure the changes I made to the install, last night, had an effect, but this setup will work.
Active partition is set as bootable partition which contains operation system. When other partition is set as active, system cannot find the boot partition so there will be a boot failure. May 24, 2014 I've got a USB flask drive that I can't seem to boot from. I thought it might be a unetbootin problem (I've occasionally had problems booting from flash drives after using unetbootin) but then I used dd to install the iso file and I get the quick message 'No boot sector on USB device' before the computer jumps right to booting form the HD.
I've got a USB flask drive that I can't seem to boot from. I thought it might be a unetbootin problem (I've occasionally had problems booting from flash drives after using unetbootin) but then I used dd to install the iso file and I get the quick message 'No boot sector on USB device' before the computer jumps right to booting form the HD. The drive works fine as a data storage device. All the files are visible and readable, I just can't boot from it.