Boot Trouble from Flash Drive

[BryantK]

I'm completely new to the Linux world and I'm trying to create a bootable flash drive version of Linux Mint 9. I created the flash drive on my mac book by downloading the .iso and converting it to a .img and then putting it onto my flash drive. When I attempted to boot my desktop from the flash drive, I did the F10 to tell the computer to boot once from the flash drive, but after selecting the flash drive and hitting enter, the computer appeared to skip the flash drive right trying to boot from the HDD. Below, I've listed the commmands used to create and burn the .img to the flash drive. Any ideas?

*****-MacBook:~ *****$ hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /linmint.img /linmint.iso
Reading Linux Mint 9 Isadora (Apple_ISO : 0)…
...............................................................................
Elapsed Time: 1m 14.723s
Speed: 10.2Mbytes/sec
Savings: 0.0%
created: /linmint.img.dmg

*****-MacBook:/ *****$ mv linmint.img.dmg linmint.img

*****-MacBook:/ *****$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
Unmount of all volumes on disk1 was successful
*****-MacBook:/ *****$ sudo dd if=/linmint.img of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=1m
Password:
763+1 records in
763+1 records out
800286720 bytes transferred in 202.665356 secs (3948809 bytes/sec)

[DrHu]

...but after selecting the flash drive and hitting enter, the computer appeared to skip the flash drive right trying to boot from the HDD.

Just one pops up right away..
Your flash drive is not included in the BIOS of the machine's boot order sequencing..
--that would be a BIOS/hardware setup for that machine.

Despite that, if there is a hard drive partition that is available as a boot device, it can often boot up first, even if another device is selected first in the boot order of the BIOS
--a timing issue for the OS

And nothing really to do with Linux..
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? ... 1601585470
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/a ... guide.html

And for MAC/WIN7 , you may want to be aware off..
http://news.techworld.com/security/3226 ... s/?olo=rss

[BryantK]

I've been toying around with my setup and ended up installing ubuntu on my desktop and trying to create the bootable Linux Mint flash drive from there using unetbootin but I keep getting a screen that reads "Boot error" when I attempt booting from the flash drive. Any ideas? If I can't resolve this soon, i'll sit back and wait for my ordered optical drive to be delivered.

[oobetimer]

I've been toying around with my setup and ended up installing ubuntu on my desktop and trying to create the bootable Linux Mint flash drive from there using unetbootin but I keep getting a screen that reads "Boot error" when I attempt booting from the flash drive. Any ideas? If I can't resolve this soon, i'll sit back and wait for my ordered optical drive to be delivered.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 25#p287321