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Re: Examine (and fix?) non-booting USB

From Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux
Subject Re: Examine (and fix?) non-booting USB
Date 2019-01-31 10:24 -0800
Message-ID <gbgsq2FadstU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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Carlos E.R. wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> I have two USBs; one which boots to a live partitioned Ub Mate 18.04.1
>> made from an .iso with mkusb* (front end for dd), the other which has
>> the same UbMate installed to the USB using the Ub Ubiquity installer on
>> the live UbMate according to these guidelines**.  The latter does not boot.
>>
>> How can I see (and paste here) what is wrong with the one which doesn't
>> boot with such as fdisk or other?  Should it be possible to retro-create
>> a boot part and put a grub there?
> 
> I know of a good script that analyzes how a computer would boot, looking
> at *all* the connected disks:
> 
> <https://github.com/arvidjaar/bootinfoscript/raw/master/bootinfoscript>
> 
> The snag for you is that it doesn't analyze a given disk only.
> 
Tnx.

I'm currently learning about boot-repair tool.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair


-- 
Mike Easter

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Examine (and fix?) non-booting USB Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-01-31 09:16 -0800
  Re: Examine (and fix?) non-booting USB Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-01-31 09:31 -0800
  Re: Examine (and fix?) non-booting USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-01-31 18:52 +0100
    Re: Examine (and fix?) non-booting USB Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-01-31 10:24 -0800
  Re: Examine (and fix?) non-booting USB Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-01-31 18:50 +0000
    Re: Examine (and fix?) non-booting USB Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-01-31 11:19 -0800
      Re: Examine (and fix?) non-booting USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-01-31 21:48 +0100
      Re: Examine (and fix?) non-booting USB "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-31 18:18 -0500
        Re: Examine (and fix?) non-booting USB "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-02-01 02:52 +0100
          Re: Examine (and fix?) non-booting USB "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-31 21:09 -0500

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