On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Javier Perez wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, das <dasd.here@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:dasd.here@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:13:25 -0500"Javier Perez" <pepebuho@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pepebuho@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> I cannot make a bootable USB drive.
Did you try fdisk to make the partition bootable before using
livecd-iso-to-disk?
In theory you used "fdisk -l" to see if the partition was bootable or not, how about the practice?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.
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Ok I just arrived back home.
In practice it was marked as bootable.
I downloaded the testdisk program and noticed a couple of interesting things.
As I said, my flash drive is a Kingston Data Traveler 8GB
Look at this extract of the created log
TestDisk 6.9, Data Recovery Utility, February 2008
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Linux version (ext2fs lib: 1.40.8, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: none, ewf lib: 2)
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 163 GB / 152 GiB - CHS 19929 255 63, sector size=512 - ATA Maxtor 6L160P0
Disk /dev/sdb - 250 GB / 232 GiB - CHS 30401 255 63, sector size=512 - ATA WDC WD2500BB-55R
Disk /dev/sdc - 8011 MB / 7640 MiB - CHS 1021 247 62, sector size=512 - Kingston DataTraveler 2.0
Disk /dev/sdc - 8011 MB / 7640 MiB - Kingston DataTraveler 2.0
Partition table type: Intel
Analyse Disk /dev/sdc - 8011 MB / 7640 MiB - CHS 1021 247 62
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=16 sector=32
BAD_RS LBA=32 62
FAT32 at 0/0/33
Info: size boot_sector 15646688, partition 15646688
FAT1 : 2256-17511
FAT2 : 17512-32767
start_rootdir : 32768 root cluster : 2
Data : 32768-15646687
sectors : 15646688
cluster_size : 8
no_of_cluster : 1951740 (2 - 1951741)
fat_length 15256 calculated 15248
heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD)
sect/track 32 (FAT) != 62 (HD)
Current partition structure:
Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD)
Warning: Incorrect number of sectors per track 32 (FAT) != 62 (HD)
1 * FAT32 LBA 0 0 33 1021 179 28 15646688 [LITTLE OWL]
I wonder if that might have something to do with it? maybe if I reformat and repartition the drive....
This inconsistency might be what makes the drive non bootable, because maybe the BIOS is
expecting something (cylinders, heads) and the drive is givng it something that it cannot make sense of.
JP
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