Jerry Geis wrote:
> Jerry Geis wrote:
>
> Jerry Geis wrote:
>
> Jerry Geis wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I just grabbed an 8gig thumb drive, took disk 1 centos 4 i386,
> > copied the isolinux directory files to my thumbdrive, then ran syslinux
> > -sf /dev/sdc1
> > on the device plugged it into my laptop and it does not boot.
> >
> > Is there a step(s) I am missing to get a bootable thumbdrive with centos?
>
> I think you also need to add a boot sector to the drive. On my 64-bit system:
>
> #dd if=/usr/lib64/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdc
>
>
> After doing your suggestion I get
> same thing it just sets there with a blinking cursor.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> I took an older 512MEG usb instead of my 8 GIG one,
> did the exact same steps and I get
> Could not find boot image: linux
>
> I copied all files what is missing?
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
> Interesting on the 512M device I copied the vmlzi586 to linux
> and it starts to boot.... great...
> Now how do I get the 8GIG part to boot?
Is there a valid MBR on the flash device?
-Ross
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