> > 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080605/b3621873/attachment-0005.html>