Booting from a LIVE USB

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openSUSE 12.3
KDE 4.10

I just made one and tried it out.
This is what I used. https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick
I think something is amiss in that the desktop looks exactly as if I had booted from sda1 or what I used to call C:\

The icons are the same, the background is the same, all my customizations are the same.

I thought it would look like a brand new install, fresh and clean.
Is that not the case, and is there a Konsole command that I can run that would tell me from where I had booted ?

thanks

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On 2013-08-21 00:56, hextejas wrote:

> I thought it would look like a brand new install, fresh and clean.
> Is that not the case, and is there a Konsole command that I can run
> that would tell me from where I had booted ?

For example, ‘mount’. The entry for “/” should say the boot device.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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Your PC BIOS or UEFI setup must be configured to allow booting from a USB thumb drive, perhaps this is not the case on your PC? I have a blog post on making a thumb drive you can find here: S.C.L.U. - SuSE Create Live USB - Version 1.00 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,

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My bios is set to permit booting from the USB, and I think it did.

But was I correct in that the desktop should be the "plain vanilla " one ?

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I am glad you found this reference and used it, but one problem…we have no idea what steps you used. You could do the GUI method for Linux, or the Windows method, or if you did the command line way. If all the customizations are the same, then I’d have to conclude you didn’t boot off the usb drive. As you pointed out, it should look like a fresh install.

I have my BIOS set to try to boot from USB first, then CD/DVD Rom, then hard drives. So if I stick in a USB drive then it will try to boot from it.

There is a nice tool for Windows users Live Linux Loader. http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ Deffinately a good tool.

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I have the same problem on my HP ProBook 4740s.
It is impossible to use USB key for booting in openSUSE 12.3. Grub simply ignores it and starts the system on hdd.
Booting live cd/dvd is without any problem.

This problem isn’t under Fedora 18/19 or Kubuntu 13.04. Booting from USB works without a problem with these distributions.

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I have never had that problem on my Dell systems.

On an HP system at work, it boots from USB by default, so I have to make sure that there is no bootable USB drive present if I want to boot from the hard drive.

If you successfully booted the live system, there is usually an icon to install. That’s a good check.

You can perhaps try the “live-fat-stick” script, and see if that gives you a bootable USB. In my experience, that might only work with 32-bit iso images. The EFI structure on a 64-bit iso confuses the script. (Google for “live-fat-stick”).

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I created the USB again and now it works properly. In fact I made it as Gnome to see how I liked the desktop vs KDE.

I don’t know what I did wrong the 1st time but it’s ok now.

For the record, I like KDE better.:stuck_out_tongue:

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The problem was finally in multifunction USB key. Sometimes functioning and sometimes not.:wink: