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? It was just a guess. There were several more steps I have needed to do in the past in order to get Fedora Live CDs to boot off of thumb drives. I wish I could find the link but all I find now are instructions to use a Fedora script to create the thumb drive -- a script that doesn't seem to be immediately available for CentOS or RHEL.