>>>>> "GP" == Gary P <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: GP> All the readme and how'tos i found so far on the net dont GP> work. has anyone gotten a flash stick to bootup and actually GP> load?? Sure, I did it just by dd'ing diskboot.img to a flash drive I had lying around. I found it a little small so I just looked at the script that generates it (/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/mk-images.i386) and made a larger image with room for more kernels. Here's the basics: mkdir -p $TOPDESTPATH/images/fobpath dd if=/dev/zero of=$TOPDESTPATH/images/diskboot.img bs=1M count=6 2>/dev/null mkdosfs $TOPDESTPATH/images/diskboot.img $SYSLINUX $TOPDESTPATH/images/diskboot.img mount -o loop $TOPDESTPATH/images/diskboot.img $TOPDESTPATH/images/fobpath cp -r $TOPDESTPATH/isolinux/* $TOPDESTPATH/images/fobpath/ grep -v local $TOPDESTPATH/images/fobpath/isolinux.cfg > $TOPDESTPATH/images/fobpath/syslinux.cfg rm -f $TOPDESTPATH/images/fobpath/isolinux.cfg umount -f $TOPDESTPATH/images/fobpath rmdir $TOPDESTPATH/images/fobpath change the count=6 on the second line to approximate the size of your flask drive if you want to fill it. I used 126 for a 128MB drive I had around. But honestly, if diskboot.img didn't work for you then I think you must have some other issue. The image worked for me on pretty much every USB-bootable machine I have access to. You aren't dd'ing the image to a partition on the flash drive, are you? It should be something like: dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda not dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda1 - J<
