[CentOS] isolinux on a pendrive from disk 1
Kirk Bocek
t004 at kbocek.com
Thu Jun 5 19:02:12 UTC 2008
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
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