On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:15:04 -0400 "H.S." <hs.samix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: ...snip... > I burned boot.iso to my 256 MB USB stick using dd command: > sudo dd if=Downloads/boot.iso of=/dev/sdd > > and got the image contents in /dev/sdd1. However, the computer does > not detect that USB stick as bootable (my motherboard can and does > boot from a USB stick) and booted from hard disk. ...snip... > In both the above cases, the boot flag for sdd1 or ON. > > I also copied the Fedora netinst.iso image to the USB stick and tried > with that, no luck there either. > > What I am I doing wrong here? I would expect the dd to work fine. Does your bios have a choice of booting from usb-cdrom and usb-hd? Have you tried both settings? Failing that, how about a medialess install? http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#ap-medialess-install Or a boot.fedoraproject.org install? see: http://boot.fedoraproject.org/download kevin
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