USB ISO Image not seen?

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Hi trying to change Win 10 lenovo thinkcentre m92p to Lubuntu; Latest iso image flashed using Rufus to brand new usb drive formatted to Fat32 but just gives error 1962 no operating system when i F12 into bios and select usb drive?
spent hours on this any ideas please

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I’ll suggest writing/burning the ISO to your install media unchanged, as using the format encoded in the ISO will install on legacy hardware, uEFI & Secure-boot uEFI hardware. This is called dd-mode I believe in rufus (but sorry I don’t use that software).

By using options to specify parameters you reformat the ISO during write (as you indicate doing), you must match your options to your actual hardware correctly for it to be recognized.

I’ll also suggest you ensure you rufus software is updated so it can write 24.10 ISOs correctly given you’re reformatting ISO during write (the dd-mode doesn’t require update for newer ISOs as all options come from within ISO itself, and the mode is just a clone of ISO to media anyway)

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Ok many thanks for the reply, i don’t seem to have dd - mode on the version of rufus(win 7 pc) is there a gudie you can point me to for doing it in Linux as i have a laptop running an older version of Lubuntu that i could use

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Applications Menu → System Tools → Startup Disk Creator
does the job. In case it’s not there, please install it by using Discover,

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If your Rufus is too old

  1. Try to download/install a newer version from https://rufus.ie

  2. else you can download/install Win32DiskImager, which is a simple cloning tool and use it to clone from the iso file to the USB pendrive.

  3. If still problems, please check with sha256sum that the download of the Lubuntu iso file was successful.

  4. If still problems, please tell us as much as possible about your computer hardware: brand name of the

  • cpu
  • graphics chip/card
  • wifi chip/card
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Etcher works for me and works with Windows OS.

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Just for fun (well, almost fun if I didn’t have to deal with MS) I tried and succeeded with powershell/wsl/mkusb:

Powershell administrator:

GET-CimInstance -query “SELECT * from Win32_DiskDrive”
wsl --mount \.\PHYSICALDRIVE2 --bare

wsl:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mkusb/ppa
sudu apt update
sudo apt install mkusb
guidus

This install of mkusb is kindof humorous as wsl is pretty bare-bones so a big long list of dependencies were installed. Still it all worked. I definitely don’t like the powershell junk.

Another suggestion in to the hat comes from a SystemRescue suggestion

i.e. Fedora Media Writer

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