howto boot from usb iso?

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Tue May 3 15:11:21 UTC 2011


On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
>
>> Tim Evans wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/03/2011 10:21 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
>>>> I tried copying f15 tc1 iso to my 16G usb using dd, but laptop doesn't try
>>>> to
>>>> boot from it.  I did change boot order at power up.
>>>
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Doesn't seem to work.  I get:
>> Unsupported filesystem: iso9660
>>
>
> One thing I don't understand, is this USB key shows up as 2 devices.
>
> /dev/sr1 (101M) iso9660
This appears to be the live-USB boot

> /dev/sdc (16G) unallocated space

That is the remaining space on the device.

Can you boot from USB on your device?  There should be a MBR on the
device as well...

James McKenzie


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