Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot

2008-05-31 Thread Javier Perez
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Bill Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/5/30 Javier Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD) sect/track 32 (FAT) != 62 (HD) Current partition structure: Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD) Warning:

Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot

2008-05-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
das wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008 17:45:38 -0400 Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In theory you used fdisk -l to see if the partition was bootable or not, how about the practice? Thank you for that. These days mailing lists are becoming progressively more drab to read without these

Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot

2008-05-30 Thread Bill Crawford
2008/5/30 Javier Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD) sect/track 32 (FAT) != 62 (HD) Current partition structure: Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD) Warning: Incorrect number of sectors per track 32 (FAT) != 62 (HD) 1 * FAT32 LBA

Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot

2008-05-30 Thread Javier Perez
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Bill Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/5/30 Javier Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD) sect/track 32 (FAT) != 62 (HD) Current partition structure: Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD) Warning:

updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot

2008-05-29 Thread Javier Perez
Hi I hae a Kingston Data Traveller USB flash drive (8GB) which for some reason I cannot make a bootable USB drive. Googling around I came up with this information: -Some USB flash drives are notorious for having problems with corrupted master boot records. Credit goes to BHSPitMonkey for

Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot

2008-05-29 Thread das
On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:13:25 -0500 Javier Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot make a bootable USB drive. Did you try fdisk to make the partition bootable before using livecd-iso-to-disk? -- das ddts.randomink.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe:

Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot

2008-05-29 Thread Bill Davidsen
Javier Perez wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, das [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:13:25 -0500 Javier Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot make a bootable USB drive. Did you try fdisk to make the

Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot

2008-05-29 Thread Mick M.
In theory the livecd_to_usb program was supposed to make it bootable as part of the process. At least that is my understanding. JP Hi; as root do fdisk -l Insert stick. repeat fdisk -l The new entry is your stick - say sdc1. Now fdisk /dev/sdc - note drop the 1. p to show the

Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot

2008-05-29 Thread das
On Thu, 29 May 2008 17:45:38 -0400 Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In theory you used fdisk -l to see if the partition was bootable or not, how about the practice? Thank you for that. These days mailing lists are becoming progressively more drab to read without these touches of wit.

Re: updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot

2008-05-29 Thread Javier Perez
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Javier Perez wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, das [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:13:25 -0500 Javier Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: