On 06/04/2012 01:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I used a very cheap 32GB USB stick - maybe that was the cause of my problems ... I started by dd-ing the DVD iso onto the single partition /dev/sdb1 on the stick. For some reason this did not boot, so I deleted the partition (with fdisk) and dd-ed the iso onto /dev/sdb . Maybe that was my error?
Today I successfully installed F17 (x86_64) from a 4GB USB stick. I dd'ed the DVD ISO image to /dev/sdb (and not sdb1).
A couple of days back, when I tried it the first time, I accidentally started dd-ing to sdb1. Then I aborted the process and then dd'ed to sdb. It was mounting fine and all files were listed, but the PC won't boot from it. I used a Sandisk Cruzer Blade drive which had some weird GPT partition table for some apps that came with it. Anyway, I used 'parted' to remove all partitions and create a new msdos partition table. Then I created a single partition and checked with fdisk if it was fine. Then I dd'ed the DVD iso image and everything worked this time. I don't know what exactly did the trick though!
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