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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080605/e0e393ad/attachment-0005.html>