[TriLUG] USB Booting

[Chris Knowles]

Just finished struggling with USB booting myself.  The magic was to make
sure the bootable flag was turned on on the appropriate partition on the
USB stick.  

(This was getting the sysrescueCD botting from a USB stick)

CJK

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 16:26 -0400, Scott G. Hall wrote:
> It must be the drought (ie. topic idea drought) -- lots of tinder available
> through November this year.
> 
> Anyone care to wet down our fields with talk of KDE 4.0 or Ubuntu 8.04
> problems?  Or better yet, why I can't get a live distro to boot on a USB
> stick?  Or my favorite topic of the moment -- accessing ext2/3 and ReiserFS
> filesystems on Window-XP systems.  (Need to format external USB drives
> with Linux filesystems, and still read them on M$-crap)
> 
> Greg Brown wrote:
> > It's been a while since we've had a serious knock-down, drag-out flame
> > war on the e-mail list (this one was more of a "flare-up", I think).
> >
> > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
> >> Bah. Beer is *much* better than popcorn except when you have to be
> >> like Windows and reboot.
> 
> -- 
> Scott G. Hall
> Raleigh, NC, USA
> ScottGHall at BellSouth.Net
>