Jerry Geis wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
>/ Hi
/>/
/>/ I just grabbed an 8gig thumb drive, took disk 1 centos 4 i386,
/>/ copied the isolinux directory files to my thumbdrive, then ran syslinux
/>/ -sf /dev/sdc1
/>/ on the device plugged it into my laptop and it does not boot.
/>/
/>/ Is there a step(s) I am missing to get a bootable thumbdrive with centos?
/
I think you also need to add a boot sector to the drive. On my 64-bit system:
#dd if=/usr/lib64/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdc
After doing your suggestion I get
same thing it just sets there with a blinking cursor.
Jerry
I took an older 512MEG usb instead of my 8 GIG one,
did the exact same steps and I get
Could not find boot image: linux
I copied all files what is missing?
Jerry
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