Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot

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> 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.

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