linux usb refuses to boot first

[sharknado34]

Okay so first things first, I originally attempted this on my 2013 samsung ativbook 4. (core i7, 8 gb of ram etc). I cannot for the life of me get the boot order to change on it, it is really strange I have tried disabling the Windows boot, turning off quick bios booting, and even reformatting the usb that I used. For some reason it refuses to acknowledge that the usb exists when booting. I have done a little bit of research and I think that the issue is not having the usb formatted as fat32, but I find that kinda hard to believe that being able to boot up on a usb is exclusively because of the file format type(and not to mention that my usb flash drive is 64 gb so i can't format to fat 32 anyways). I downloaded linux mint onto my pc, and then i transferred it over to the flash drive using yumi. for some reason though I cant get the flash drive to be set up to boot for my laptop. I eventually gave up on that laptop and said maybe its just a problem with the usb? I go to my other laptop (a fujitsu) and it shows up in the boot ordering in bios, however even though it is set first, my laptop still refuses to boot from the usb stick. I have finally double checked to see if there is a problem with the flash drive and yes it is working just fine. This isn't my first time installing linux on a pc, but it has been a while, I'm probably just forgetting some easy step, but I can't seem to figure out what I am doing wrong. 

[desertcomputer]

Try Etcher to burn the linux ISO, maybe try a different distro?

[Syntaxvgm]

Disable fast bios, which should support legacy usb boot after. 

If it still doesn't work, remake the usb and use YUMI. 

[sharknado34]

10 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

Disable fast bios, which should support legacy usb boot after. 

If it still doesn't work, remake the usb and use YUMI. 

should i be downloading linux directly to the usb? (already tried disabling fast bios)

[sharknado34]

12 minutes ago, EMC said:

Try Etcher to burn the linux ISO, maybe try a different distro?

Will certainly try

[xyz4512]

Yumi will do the trick most of time. At least when I have issues. Also check your BIOS and make sure legacy is enabled.

 

edit:https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/

Use this and at should help make a good bootable drive. I'd also give Ubuntu a try if you keep running into issues.

 

[sharknado34]

Yeah so I tried again this time using unbuntu and it still didn't work (and yes i used yumi to put it on the flash drive). Not sure what I am doing wrong, but something is goofed.

[sharknado34]

I finally got it to work I took an existing ubuntu system and made a bit for bit copy of ubuntu over to my flash drive.