Background
I created an installation of Linux Mint 18 KDE onto a 16GB Kingston DataTraveler 102 (full install, not Live CD). The default Mint installer doesn't like using a USB flash drive as an installation target (Lord knows why), so I created a basic installation in VirtualBox, converted the virtual disk into a raw file, then imaged the raw file onto the thumb drive.
Issues
It boots successfully from my own laptop, an IdeaPad Yoga 13. However, it's not recognised as bootable by a 2010 Mac Book Pro or a Late 2009 24" iMac, and it causes a friend's laptop (white Sony 14", 320GB HDD, 3GB RAM, AMD Turion) to freeze at the BIOS screen, even though it actually booted successfully once on that machine.
Has anyone run into this kind of issue with thumb drives before?
I created an installation of Linux Mint 18 KDE onto a 16GB Kingston DataTraveler 102 (full install, not Live CD). The default Mint installer doesn't like using a USB flash drive as an installation target (Lord knows why), so I created a basic installation in VirtualBox, converted the virtual disk into a raw file, then imaged the raw file onto the thumb drive.
Issues
It boots successfully from my own laptop, an IdeaPad Yoga 13. However, it's not recognised as bootable by a 2010 Mac Book Pro or a Late 2009 24" iMac, and it causes a friend's laptop (white Sony 14", 320GB HDD, 3GB RAM, AMD Turion) to freeze at the BIOS screen, even though it actually booted successfully once on that machine.
Has anyone run into this kind of issue with thumb drives before?