Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

[Joseph]

On 09/02/14 10:56, Mick wrote:
>On 2 September 2014 09:00, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:23:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Device    Boot Start       End Blocks  Id System
>>>>> /dev/sdb1 *        0    389119 194560  17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
>>>>>
>>>> I don't know if it matters or not but on one of my sticks, I get this:
>>>>
>>>> Device    Boot Start       End  Blocks  Id System
>>>> /dev/sde1 *        1   3915775 1957887+  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>>>>
>>>> Mine is FAT32 where yours is NTFS.  Could that difference cause this
>>>> problem?
>>> No, it's just fdisk trying to guess the type of a filesystem that isn't
>>> actually there. I've just run it over 7 distro ISOs and got "Hidden
>>> HPFS/NTFS" for 5 of them.
>>
>> Well, it seems everyone is grasping at straws.  So far, that is the only
>> difference I have seen.  It's a head scratcher for sure.
>>
>> Dale
>
>There's some more straws to grasp, namely the partition table that the
>OP created with fdisk, as well as the first partition on it:
>
>Assuming the USB is still on /dev/sdb, then use fdisk to delete
>partition /dev/sdb1.
>
>Then manually delete the USB DOS partition table:
>
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
>
>
>Finally, reinstall the iso once more without creating any partitions manually:
>
>dd if=/home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso of=/dev/sdb
>
>sync
>
>NOTE: Make sure that /dev/sdb is indeed your USB stick or you'll cause damage
>to whatever is on /dev/sdb.
>
>--
>Regards,
>Mick

I just did as you suggested 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
dd if=/home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso of=/dev/sdb
sync

make no difference, the USB still will not boot. 

-- 
Joseph