> Hi > I hae a Kingston Data Traveller USB flash drive (8GB) which for some > reason > I cannot make a bootable USB drive. > > Googling around I came up with this information: > > > -Some USB flash drives are notorious for having problems with corrupted > master boot records..... > Credit goes to BHSPitMonkey for pointing out this fix. The troubled drive > encountered > was a Kingston Data Traveler 2GB unit- > > I think this makes my unit highly suspect. > > The solution in Ubuntu was > > we will install the mbr package and use it to create the new mbr on the > USB > flash drive > > > 1. Type *sudo apt-get install mbr* > 2. Type *fdisk -l* to find out which device is your flash drive > 3. Type *install-mbr /dev/sdx* (replacing x with your flash device) > > My question is how do we do this with Fedora? > I already tried out the install-live-to-usb thingy and it did not work. > > In fact the section in installing the mbr is blank at > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo FWIW, I installed F8 on my laptop, with a USB stick as /boot. I had plenty of issues if I told the installation to install grub to the MBR. Instead, I wound up having it installed into the /boot partition, instead, and it worked just fine. IOW, *my* suggestion is to not use the MBR on the USB stick, at all. YMMV. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
