On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 08:50 -0800, Grant wrote: > > Does the USB stick still boot? It looks like you wiped the wrong > device. > > Bingo, right as usual! Apparently I wiped the USB stick. I ran fdisk > and mk2fs -j again (do I want journaling?) and reinstalled Damn Small > Linux on the stick. For some reason the laptop tell me "missing > operating system" when I try to boot from the stick now. I need to > test it on other systems.
Grant, Take a deep breath and hhink about what you're doing for a second. Did you just copy files to the stick and expect that it would boot? It' still needs a bootloader (LILO, GRUB, SYSLINUX, or whatever) in order to load the OS on the stick. Your dd wiped out *everything* When you finally do get the stick to boot, run fdisk -l or blkid or whatever and make sure your target disk is actually what you think it is. Anyway might save you some time in the long run... maybe not.
