On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 23:21 -0600, inode0 wrote: > Ok, I downloaded Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso and gave it a try. We can > drop what I had as the first step. > > We need to partition the usb stick. I used ext2 (I expect ext3 is fine > too) with just one partition. I used tune2fs with -c 0 and -i 0 to > disable fsck and be sure to label the partition Fedora-14-multi. Then > remount it. > > # echo '(hd0) sda' > /media/Fedora-14-multi/boot/grub/device.map > > I think we need a tab character between (hd0) and sda in the command above. > > You might need to do the following step from a machine where the usb > stick is mounted on /dev/sda1 ... I'd have to test that to be sure but > I recall grub-install being cranky otherwise. > > # grub-install --root-directory=/media/Fedora-14-multi --no-floppy '(hd0)' > > Now the usb stick is booting happily into the various live spins. John, I had to take a couple of days off for Christmas shopping. Sorry. You almost had it. The solution was to put a second line in device.map with an hdN BIOS number corresponding to the sdX letter of the thumb drive. 1. # fdisk /dev/sdc <-- make 1 primary partition with default start/end, bootable, type 83 2. # mke2fs -L Fedora-14-multi /dev/sdc1 <-- make ext2 filesystem 3. # tune2fs -c 0 /dev/sdc1 4. Remove & reinsert thumb drive to automount at /media/Fedora-14-multi 5. # mount -t iso9660 -o loop /pathto/Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso /tmp 6. # cp -dR /tmp /media/Fedora-14-multi/ 7. # cat 'hd0<Ctrl-V><I>/dev/sda' > /media/Fedora-14-multi/boot/grub/device.map 8. # cat 'hd2<Ctrl-V><I>/dev/sdc' >> /media/Fedora-14-multi/boot/grub/device.map 9. # grub-install --root-directory=/media/Fedora-14-multi --no-floppy '(hd2)' This makes a bootable thumb drive from the Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso image. Thanks for your help! --Doc -- 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
