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Jerry Geis wrote:
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<pre>Jerry Geis wrote:
><i> Hi
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</i>><i> I just grabbed an 8gig thumb drive, took disk 1 centos 4 i386,
</i>><i> copied the isolinux directory files to my thumbdrive, then ran syslinux
</i>><i> -sf /dev/sdc1
</i>><i> on the device plugged it into my laptop and it does not boot.
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</i>><i> Is there a step(s) I am missing to get a bootable thumbdrive with centos?
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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
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After doing your suggestion I get <br>
same thing it just sets there with a blinking cursor.<br>
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Jerry<br>
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I took an older 512MEG usb instead of my 8 GIG one,<br>
did the exact same steps and I get<br>
Could not find boot image: linux<br>
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I copied all files what is missing?<br>
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Jerry<br>
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Interesting on the 512M device I copied the vmlzi586 to linux and it
starts to boot.... great...<br>
Now how do I get the 8GIG part to boot?<br>
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Jerry<br>
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