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