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Re: Help booting Alpine

Graham Bentley <admin@cpcnw.co.uk>
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On 02/11/2021 21:14, Vincent Bentley wrote:
 > I usually try an old 1GB or 2GB USB stick if I experience a problem 
booting a new distro.
 > If that doesn't work, I try burning a CD or DVD and booting from USB 
optical media.

Thanks Vince, that's exactly what I did. An old 1GB stick & 2 different 
USB Optical
drives both resulted in the same situation i.e. mounting boot media failure!

See below...

On 02/11/2021 21:24, David Restall wrote:
 > Have you another machine you try booting it on?
Cheers David, yep - tried on my IBM X200 lappy with same result :(

 > Failing that, download an alternative image
Good idea, as well as using the checksums...

 >  I've never heard of Rufus
It's recommended in the wiki. Another more popular similar program is 
called 'Etcher'

 > only ever used dd and never had any problems with it.

OK, so I booted Deb Linux, re-downloaded the image, checked checksums & 
burnt to
a new 'modern' 16GB thumb drive using DD

Not only was it loads faster burning the image but it booted both my 
laptop and
desktop no problems - so, all good!

My conclusion: the old 1GB thumb drive was way too slow and unable to create
suitable drive / mount point in time.

Thanks all!

Now I can get going on my first install of Alpine :) :)
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