Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

[J. Roeleveld]

On Friday, August 29, 2014 11:37:37 PM Joseph wrote:
> I'm trying to make my 4GB USB bootable and it is not working.
>
> df -h
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> ...
> /dev/sda1       3.8G  190M  3.6G   5% /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED
>
> fdisk -l
> ...
> Device    Boot Start       End  Blocks  Id System
> /dev/sda1 *     1064   7864319 3931628   c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>
> Here are the steps I'm following:
>  mount -o loop,ro -t iso9660
> /home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso /mnt/cdrom/ cp -r
> /mnt/cdrom/* /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED
>  mv /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/isolinux/* /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/
>  mv /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/isolinux.cfg
> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/syslinux.cfg rm -rf
> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/isolinux*
>  mv /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/memtest86
> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/memtest sed -i -e "s:cdroot:cdroot slowusb:" -e
> "s:kernel memtest86:kernel memtest:"
> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/syslinux.cfg umount
> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/
>  syslinux  /dev/sda1
>
> The above steps are from:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO
>
> Where is my mistake?

You're not following all the steps.

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Joost