I think I've missed:
dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda1
On 08/30/14 08:15, J. Roeleveld wrote:
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
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Joseph
