howto boot from usb iso?

[Neal Becker]

James McKenzie wrote:

> 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

This is some read-only filesystem.  Notice it's a different _device_, not a 
different partition.

>> /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