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Hello everyone,
I'm new here. I'm interested in installing Mageia and checking it out. I made a live USB and it won't work, I only get a blinking cursor. Can you help me? I'll do a full explanation so we can hopefully skip over a lot of the standard troubleshooting.

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on a Sony VPCEB47GM 64-bit system

-First I reformatted the drive, MBR and all, and made a FAT partition.
-Then I downloaded Mageia-2-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-x86_64-CD.iso
-I ran sudo fdisk -l to find the proper device node which was sdb1.
-I CD'd to the directory with the file and ran this command, which was suggested here
dd if=Mageia-2-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-x86_64-CD.iso of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M
-Terminal was busy for a while without any outputs and about 5 minutes later it said something like files transferred successfully (I don't have logs for this, but it seems like everyone worked right).
-I then rebooted my computer which is already set up in the BIOS menu to have USB boot priority
-The screen I got was black with a blinking white cursor in the top left
-Next I booted back into Ubuntu and changed the partition on the drive to be bootable which dd didn't do (it seems to have remade the partition).
-I tried booting again and no change

And here I am now on the forum.

Thanks for any help all, this project looks wonderful and I'd love to get involved. First this initial hurdle.

apyrexia

That's your mistake, you've to dump the iso to the whole device not to a partition.

apyrexia wrote:dd if=Mageia-2-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-x86_64-CD.iso of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M

You've to do it this way:

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dd if=Mageia-2-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-x86_64-CD.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M

Thanks, ill give that a try.