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>> > Does the USB stick still boot? It looks like you wiped the wrong |
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>> device. |
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>> Bingo, right as usual! Apparently I wiped the USB stick. I ran fdisk |
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>> and mk2fs -j again (do I want journaling?) and reinstalled Damn Small |
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>> Linux on the stick. For some reason the laptop tell me "missing |
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>> operating system" when I try to boot from the stick now. I need to |
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>> test it on other systems. |
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> Grant, |
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> Take a deep breath and hhink about what you're doing for a second. Did |
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> you just copy files to the stick and expect that it would boot? It' |
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> still needs a bootloader (LILO, GRUB, SYSLINUX, or whatever) in order to |
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> load the OS on the stick. Your dd wiped out *everything* |
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unetbootin does go through a step called "Installing Bootloader". I |
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also tried installing "Super Grub Disk" and "Smart Boot Manager" via |
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unetbootin, both of which are specifically described as bootloaders. |
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Still nothing. Could that dd have wiped out something else on the USB |
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stick that is important for boot? |
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Is there a quick way to install a bootloader manually, so I can see if |
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that works? I tried to adapt this but couldn't come up with a |
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procedure I though would be correct: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#doc_chap2 |
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- Grant |
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