Error when booting from USB

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I posted the following on a different web forum, but I figured that I would receive better advice here than on the community helpdesk section of a religious website. lol

I am trying to run a live version of openSuse (GNU/Linux), and eventually install, via Universal Serial Bus (USB) when I get the following error (exact):

SYSLINUX 4.06 EDD 4.06-pre1 Copyright © 1994-2011 H. Peter An in et al
ERROR: No configuration file found
No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
boot: _

I downloaded the current x86-64 version from the openSuse website and “burned” it to a 16gb USB device with PendriveLinux’s Universal USB Installer (1.9.0.7)

I have some (Ubuntu) GNU/Linux experience but it has been a while. My laptop model is HP Pavilion g4 1318dx.

Please forgive any mistakes I have made as I am typing this on my tablet so I could reproduce the error message exactly as it appears.

Thanks.

I ran Ubuntu for a couple years (9.04 was the first version that worked and 10.04 was the last version that worked - so I kept 10.04 LTS for around a year after it was released). I have since switched to Windows 7 because I was unhappy with some of Ubuntu’s decisions of late, but I want to give GNU/Linux another chance. If anyone has any advice, I would greatly appreciate it.

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Can you try unetbootin

or better still, Imagewriter

Failing that use ‘dd’
dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M;sync

where image.iso is the name of the image
and sdb is the target device

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Here is what gets copies to my USB when I use unetbootin. Perhaps my issue is a corrupted .iso file? I will try to download it again via direct download instead of torrenting it this time. Perhaps it will work better then.

Thanks for the suggestion :smiley:

http://i.imgur.com/cPjoB.png

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On 08/21/2012 05:46 AM, 1844 wrote:
>
> Here is what gets copies to my USB when I use unetbootin. Perhaps my
> issue is a corrupted .iso file? I will try to download it again via
> direct download instead of torrenting it this time. Perhaps it will
> work better then.

before trying to make the usb, check the iso using md5 or sha1 sum
checking, read about how on the download page (below the download
button) and on the “Download Help” linked from the download page…

no need to re-download until you have checked the iso you now have!
and, if the torrent is doing its job correctly, it WILL be a good iso.

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dd http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat

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On 2012-08-21 08:47, dd@home.dk wrote:

> before trying to make the usb, check the iso using md5 or sha1 sum checking, read about how
> on the download page (below the download button) and on the “Download Help” linked from the
> download page…

Concur.

There is, however, a bad md5sum checker for Windows around, lets see if I have the link …]
no, sorry, it appears I did not save it or the keywords md5 or checksum do not find it. There
was a post recently of somebody downloading several times the iso, and every time consistently
getting the same bad checksum. It turned out that the checker was buggy.

> no need to re-download until you have checked the iso you now have!
> and, if the torrent is doing its job correctly, it WILL be a good iso.

true

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

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I know that this is a very old thread, but if anyone needs to check md5 or sha from within windows, there is a MS command-line utility called FCIV

Availability and description of the File Checksum Integrity Verifier utility