----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason L Tibbitts III" <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Discussion list about Kickstart" <kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: Flash Drive
"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<
thanks, well the problem i got stuck at with DD was the fact that it kept
formatting it to 1.44MB so thats as far as i went when i went that route i
will read over your email closely and give it a try, thanks!
Gary
