On Friday, April 08, 2011 02:22:47 PM Timothy Murphy wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > USB disks _can_ have partitions (obviously, since you can stick about > > any drive into a usb adapter), > The instructions in <http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en- > US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/ > certainly advise making a partition /dev/sdb1 > with partition type b and running mkdosfs on it. Have you successfully booted with this USB stick before? Some USB sticks aren't bootable.