updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Thu May 29 21:45:38 UTC 2008
Javier Perez wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, das <dasd.here at gmail.com
> <mailto:dasd.here at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:13:25 -0500
> "Javier Perez" <pepebuho at gmail.com <mailto:pepebuho at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > I cannot make a bootable USB drive.
>
> Did you try fdisk to make the partition bootable before using
> livecd-iso-to-disk?
>
> no
> In theory the livecd_to_usb program was supposed to make it bootable as
> part of the process. At least that is my
> understanding.
>
In theory you used "fdisk -l" to see if the partition was bootable or
not, how about the practice?
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