Quote from: johnnybe8008 on February 16, 2018, 03:47:43 AM

I'm going nuts trying to create a bootable USB. I'm currently running in a windows 10 environment

On Windows people use Rufus, opensource and free and the best. On Ubuntu desktop there is Startup Disk Creator. On any Linux dd. Procedure for using dd should be the same as for HiveOS: https://hiveos.farm/ and you may wish to thy HiveOS also, because is is similar commercial product, but 3 up to miners free.

Quote from: johnnybe8008 on February 16, 2018, 03:47:43 AM

I now have a USB which will boot, installed Syslinux via MultiUSB then added XMOS v2 .iso (iso was made from your .img file with SuperIso).

I have no idea what final result could be, because the distro is put on 2 partitions with Linux LVM and your way everything could get even more messed up.

Quote from: johnnybe8008 on February 16, 2018, 03:47:43 AM

I now see the boot option for XMOS V2 but then screen goes black... Ctrl Alt F1 does nothing. Ctlr A 1 does nothing...
When Miner Rig boots under windows it's IP is 192.168.1.4 and when booted under XMOS router does not show 192.168.1.4, nor any new IP, so I assume the boot has failed...

When booting from USB screen goes black for a couple of minutes and looks like nothing is happening; then you see running Linux booting lines for a couple of minutes; then asks for user name for a few seconds; then screen turns black again, but Ctrl Alt F1 or Ctrl Alt F2 or Ctrl Alt F3 must give you back login screen.
IP address usually stays the same, because DHCP server assigns IP addresses based on MAC address not OS version. You can try ping your XMOS from Windows cmd

Code:

ping 192.168.1.4

if responds then ssh from Linux or Putty ssh from Windows