On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 12:21 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 7/5/20 12:01 PM, Robin Lee wrote:
> I've downloaded a Windows installer ISO-file from
microsoft.com
> that I
> put on a USB-stick and tried to install Windows on physical
> machine,
> but it won't boot from the USB. It shows up in the BIOS boot menu,
> but
> it won't boot.
>
> I've tried to install the same ISO-file in Boxes and that went
> fine.
> I've tried both Brasero and Disk Image Writer, I've tried two
> different
> USB-sticks and two different physical target machines.
Boxes will make it a DVD drive, not USB.
Isn't Brasero only for writing to optical media? Anyway, I would
just
use dd to write it to the flash drive.
In a terminal (change sdc to whatever your flash drive is):
sudo dd if=windows.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress
Same result.
Also tested creating a bootable USB-stick with a Centos ISO-file. No
problem.