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From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 06:32:07
Message-Id: 20140830063210.GA16350@syscon7
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB by "J. Roeleveld"
1 I think I've missed:
2 dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda1
3
4 On 08/30/14 08:15, J. Roeleveld wrote:
5 >On Friday, August 29, 2014 11:37:37 PM Joseph wrote:
6 >> I'm trying to make my 4GB USB bootable and it is not working.
7 >>
8 >> df -h
9 >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
10 >> ...
11 >> /dev/sda1 3.8G 190M 3.6G 5% /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED
12 >>
13 >> fdisk -l
14 >> ...
15 >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
16 >> /dev/sda1 * 1064 7864319 3931628 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
17 >>
18 >> Here are the steps I'm following:
19 >> mount -o loop,ro -t iso9660
20 >> /home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso /mnt/cdrom/ cp -r
21 >> /mnt/cdrom/* /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED
22 >> mv /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/isolinux/* /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/
23 >> mv /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/isolinux.cfg
24 >> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/syslinux.cfg rm -rf
25 >> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/isolinux*
26 >> mv /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/memtest86
27 >> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/memtest sed -i -e "s:cdroot:cdroot slowusb:" -e
28 >> "s:kernel memtest86:kernel memtest:"
29 >> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/syslinux.cfg umount
30 >> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/
31 >> syslinux /dev/sda1
32 >>
33 >> The above steps are from:
34 >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO
35 >>
36 >> Where is my mistake?
37 >
38 >You're not following all the steps.
39 >
40 >--
41 >Joost
42 >
43
44 --
45 Joseph

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Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>