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Yes, that same USB stick that previously wouldn't boot on the original hardware now boots correctly. It was a full moon a couple of days ago, that must have been it  ::) Thanks anyway  ;D

The stick was written on the same hardware, booted on different hardware.

Do you have a different PC with different hardware to crosscheck?

Yes! I dd'd the USB stick again, using bs=16k and plugged it into an old laptop, and booted without any issue.  ???

Thanks for the tip lucifercipher, if I need to do this in Windows at some point I'll know what to use.

I just wanted to raise a flag as to the blocksize used in the dd command specified in the install guide; perhaps 16k isn't optimal? Maybe others are having/have had the same problem, maybe it's just me.

Hello,

This is just a notification of a problem I had installing via USB following the software installation guide.

Using linux to "dd" the image to the USB drive seemed to work fine, at least fdisk -l showed two partitions (in my case /dev/sdc4 and /dev/sdc4p4). However, booting from it was not possible; just a blank screen with a spinning cursor, no text of any kind. I confirmed that the hash of the bz2 file matched the checksum provided on the mirror, so a dodgy download couldn't be the problem.

I tried with a second USB drive from a different manufacturer, again same result.

So I tried a third time to dd the image, this time I didn't specify the "bs=16k" option, I just removed that. To my surprise, I was able to boot and install without any issues!

I have no idea if this is some sort of quirk with my particular system or not, just thought a heads up would be in order in any case.

Thanks!