On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso image is a DVD image that uses GRUB rather > than isolinux to boot to a menu of Live CD ISO images. At 5.3 GB, it > will not fit on an ordinary single layer DVD and requires a dual-layer > DVD disc & drive. If it could be written to an 8GB USB thumb drive, it > could be used to boot a system with a CD, an ordinary single-layer DVD, > or no optical drive at all. > > The Fedora livecd-iso-to-disk utility cannot make a bootable USB from > this image because it uses GRUB rather than isolinux like live CDs. I > submitted a RFE to enhance l-i-t-d, but it was declined. I've tried > using dd to copy the ISO image directly to the thumb drive: > > # dd if=Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=2048 > > but this does not produce a bootable device. Can anyone suggest a method > that will work? I think you can do this with a couple additional tweaks to grub after copying everything from Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso to the usb stick. Please be careful and double check the commands below. Assuming the usb stick is mounted on $MNT and the grub configuration is setup to use a CD we would need to change one line in grub.conf for booting from USB instead. # perl -p -i -e 's#root \(cd\)#root \(hd0,0\)#' $MNT/boot/grub/grub.conf We also probably need to adjust the device.map for USB with something similar to # echo '(hd0) /dev/sda' > $MNT/boot/grub/device.map You might need to do the above step from a machine where the usb stick is mounted on /dev/sda1 ... I'd have to test that to be sure. Finally run grub-install on the image with great care # grub-install --root-directory=$MNT --no-floppy '(hd0)' With some variation of these I think we can get it to boot from a usb stick. Did I say be careful? :) John -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
