On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 19:25 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:42 -0700, John Poelstra wrote: > > Working from this page http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo > > > > I don't have a USB stick yet to try this so I'm wondering if anyone has successfully used their ipod as a USB boot device? I am reluctant to change the partition flag on the ipod to be bootable because I don't have time right now to setting up my ipod again if it gets hosed. > > Current ipods are set up with 2048 byte sectors which syslinux (and > other bootloaders) don't support, so you can't actually boot from them. > Fixing that requires a lot of really grotty work to clean out all of the > "sector size == 512" assumptions through syslinux and even then, no > guarantee that it doesn't brick the iPod I guess that'll apply to any of the flash based NAND iPods out there - but not the disk ones, I'd assume they're still standard 512 sectors. So, your testing before was all on a disk based iPod? Jon. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
