Unable to install operating system from USB?

Question

Windows

I welcome you, Habralyudi.
I have the following situation. Windows 7 is installed on the computer. Using the UNetbootin program, an image of the openSUSE 11.2 installation disk (DVD) is written to the USB flash drive. When you try to boot from it to start installing the system, "Verifying DMI Pool Data" is displayed and the cursor blinks on the next line. Nothing happens next. The question is what could be the reason and how can it be fixed?
Note: about six months ago, the current Windows 7 was successfully installed on the same computer using the same flash drive.
Google and some experiments did not help, I hope for you.
PS Do not offer installation from a disk. The goal is not to install the system itself, but to understand why it is not possible to boot from USB.

Answer 1

Is the file system on the media the right one?

Answer 2

Read this article
. In general, grub4dos helped me out more than once.

Answer 3

As an option, try recording through UltraISO.
In UltraISO, open the image (File-Open), then burn the image (Bootload-Burn hard disk image). There is nothing to change, just Record.
Try it.
PS you can do everything through the Trial version of UltraISO

Answer 4

And even earlier, UNetBootin was not able to set the boot flag on the selected partition. I used ptedit32.exe for this, but any partition editor will do.

Answer 5

I somehow could not install the system from a USB flash drive for a rather banal reason - it was faulty. Try to check on another flash drive

Answer 6

I have the same problem.
In general, it is not possible to boot from flash drives.
I tried different images (Linux distributions and rescue disks) in iso and img formats.
Recorded with a variety of programs, from Unetbootin to dd for windows.
I tried with two USB flash drives (8 GB and 512 MB), as well as with a 2 GB SD flash drive from the card reader.
None. In those cases when the cant with the entry is not clearly detected (like the aforementioned Error: Could not find kernel image), then just like the author's, the cursor on a black background blinks.
There are two ideas. Either I do something fundamentally wrong and every time I miss some important step (which is unlikely, because I strictly follow the instructions that come with the distributions.
Or something is wrong with my motherboard or BIOS (Asus P5K).

Answer 7

Unfortunately, my answer will be of little use, but I myself always record Windows from under Windows, a tench from under a tench using dd. The bootloader messes up, in difficult times, the lack of linux at hand somehow shamanically achieved a working live-cd of ubunta using ultraIso, and already cut fedoras \ suzi \ etc. from under it.

Answer 8

In response to a similar problem, the Gigabyte support answered me with something like “Contact the supplier of images / programs for burning” :( Other computers, including the latest models of Dell and Samsung, booted without problems from this flash drive. BIOS update.

Answer 9

Image Writer for Windows
Works, checked. Until I discovered this program for myself, I also suffered like you.
The only thing is that after you burn the disk, the size of the flash drive will be equal to the size of the disk and you will need to restore the partition table (or low-level formatting).

Answer 10

Recently I installed Windows 7 from a flash drive, unpacking the image from under Linux. All that had to be done was to format the flash drive in ntfs, setting the "bootability" flag (any parted face can), and unpack the contents of the image onto the flash drive.

Answer 11

WinXp... install ubuntu-16.10-desktop-i386, tried UltraISO Premium Edition 9.6.2.3059 Final, and unetbootin-windows-625, and LiLi USB Creator.... hangs on Verifyind DMI ....
I'm not completely stupid , I read the accompanying code, I do it as described, I installed it from these (2) flash drives before ... I put everything in the BIOS ... I don’t understand where to dig .....