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I have used UNetbootin to make a 4GB USB stick into a bootable media but keep running up against the same problem.

I removed the partitions and formatted the USB drive as MBR and added a single FAT32 partition. Then I cleared the /tmp/ directory and had UNetbootin make an Ubuntu (AMD64) bootable disk on the USB device. The bootable flag is set, the files etc look correct but on more than one device I get the error message that this is not a bootable device.

What has gone wrong and how do I fix it?

  • I was typing the answer to put you on the right track to booting from USB, but am concerned about being voted down for helping (http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/161735/grant-ftp-access-to-specific-directory/161740?noredirect=1#comment264801_161740). – L. D. James Oct 12 '14 at 22:44
  • Honestly, I did not mean to make you feel bad on that other question. Go for it, this is a particularly safe question to attack as it is purely academic at this stage but I would like to figure out what went wrong for next time. – Matthew Brown aka Lord Matt Oct 12 '14 at 22:46

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