Extan Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 (edited) Hey ! I've recently decided to create a backtrack bootable USB key using this little software : unetbootin. But the thing is : each time I try to boot with the the flash drive plug in, the computer just keeps freezing at the very beginning (where they inform you which button to press to get into the BIOS). I seems that my motherboard (aspire 8930g) can handle those kind of boot, so that's not the probleme. I've also tried to create the key with an other ISO but nothing changed. I tried an other distriution ---> same. I'm kind of desperate right know, i've tried a lot a different forums but nobody could help me. Hoping someone got the answer Extan Edited July 22, 2010 by Extan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 (edited) According to this forum post, it will only boot as USB1.1 and can take a while (up to 3 minutes, evidently). Have you ever just left the computer running for a while to see if it eventually does boot? You might also want to take a look at PLoP. Edited July 22, 2010 by H@L0_F00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extan Posted July 22, 2010 Author Share Posted July 22, 2010 Yeah, I let it run almost 15min but nothing happenned, i couldn't even access to my BIOS ! I'm going to try with PLoP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extan Posted July 22, 2010 Author Share Posted July 22, 2010 Well I couldn't figure out how to use PLoP (each time I mounted the image, it just openned me a new folder i couldn't use). But I tried other methods, especially using Syslinux, but I had the same problem again and again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Well I couldn't figure out how to use PLoP (each time I mounted the image, it just openned me a new folder i couldn't use). But I tried other methods, especially using Syslinux, but I had the same problem again and again Burn PLoP to a disc, boot from the disk with your flash drive plugged in, then choose the correct option to boot from USB. You might also want to try updating your BIOS if possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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