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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