Using Rufus to make bootable USB thumb drives

Rufus is one my favorite utilities to use to take an ISO and make it into a bootable thumb drive.  However, once in a while, usually with HP SPP's (Service Pack for Proliant), the machine will not boot and give an error message saying it cannot find vesamenu.c32

Here's what you need to the USB drive created by Rufus to work:

Edit \syslinux.cfg on the root of the USB

Replace its content with:

DEFAULT loadconfig

LABEL loadconfig

  CONFIG /system/isolinux.cfg

  APPEND /system/

The problem is there are multiple isolinux/syslinux on the ISO (one in usb/ the other n system/) and of course Rufus has to try to guess which one is the right one. Unfortunately, it's the one in system/, whereas Rufus picks the one in usb/ by default.



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