USB Stick won´t boot

[brandy]

Hi there!

I was a little off Mageia. Tried different distribution for over a year, to understand how other oses work. Now, with the newest version of Mageia I want go back to my roots.
But I have a problem: I write the Mageia ISO on my stick but it won´t boot. I know you would say it´s the BIOS configuration, but I installed, as said about 8 different distributions, without any change.

At the moment I have Open Suse Tumbleweed running - I recognized, that since then, no bootable sticks boot. I wrote the ISOs with Multiwriter, Suse Studio Image Writer and Unetbootin. Never a problem. I changed the sticks, and on every other computer everything is booting well.

Here you find the photos of my BIOS.

The interesting point here is, that I find my old bootsticks here (Apricity OS, Ubuntu and the latest Open Suse). but I never find the stick, where the Mageia-ISO is dumped on.

What´s wrong here?
Is it possible, that through Open Suse it doesn´t find the USB on boot?

[hazard157]

As I know Unetbootin can not create Mageia boot stick. I don't know about Multiwriter and Suse Studio Image Writer, maybe they also can not create Mageia bootable ISO.

There is guaranteed way to create bootable ISO using dd utility:
dd if=/path/to/Mageia-6-x86_64-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

where /dev/sdX is USB stick. Be careful to specify correct sdX, otherwise it is possible to lose your data on hard disk.

[brandy]

Thanks for the help - but, unfortunately, makes no difference.
I don´t find the stick in the boot menu - there must be a problem with the BIOS i think.

[benmc]

given that in the 3rd image "opensuse-secureboot" is the first boot option and Ubuntu (which is also secureboot enabled) boot, I would look at the first image you posted.

Are you able to change "Secure boot mode" from normal to off?

[brandy]

The most interesting point is, changing for example the order of the boot options or the bios administrator password doesn´t take place. I can save or save and exit, but it never changes. I changed the password, so that I can change "Secure Boot mode" from "Standard".

As I said, a few months ago, I changed my operating systems very often - everytime I booted from stick and it worked without any change. Now, changing from Open Suse there are so many problems - very interesting.

Thanks for the help!

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks

[brandy]

But the topic isn´t solved.
I just said, that i can´t change the "Secure boot mode" and that I can´t save, if I change something!

[benmc]

been having a look online about your bios, google "insydeh20 bios unlock advanced settings".

guessing rev3.5?

advanced settings may be under F10 + A.

[brandy]

BIOS version is: 9ECN31WW (v1.14)