[PLUG] Machine won't boot from USB drive
John Meissen
john at meissen.org
Sun Apr 29 23:32:59 UTC 2018
dick at dicksteffens.com said:
> I've downloaded the Ubuntu MATE 18.04 iso file, copied it to a USB stick, and
> am trying to replace my old Ubuntu 14.04. But I can't get the machine to boot
> from the USB drive.
You can't just copy the ISO to a flash drive and boot from it. You need a tool
like 'mkusb' to create a bootable image on the drive. I've been using this to
set up a new system without an optical drive, it works really well...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb
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