New USB installation will not boot, but there are no error messages.[SOLVED]

[Rava]

If one is using SD cards for Porteus, and you have Windows / Mac handy, you can make sure it is formatted properly by those who wrote the specs for oem's. At least once in it's lifetime. And unlike *anything* else, these guys have the ability to rewrite the firmware inside your SD card's actual controller in case it is corrupt - which gparted, windows, mac and others can't touch:

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/

Sometimes I'll use this to make sure the SD card controller's internal firmware is programmed properly and THEN use gparted or other utils for special formatting. This was very important when I was running SBC or single-board computers using SDcards - the sdcard.org formatter is the only one that knows how to gain access to rewrite the internal firmware for best performance / corruption fixes before I installed the OS on it. But use a real sdcard port - I'm not sure a usb<>sdcard dongle will do this correctly.

That's very good info there. Thanks.