Hi, Renato Bispo wrote: > -> I partitioned my USB stick using gparted, setting the boot flag on the > partition I wanted to put the image.
Now i wonder whether the stick already contained MBR code which would jump on the marked partition or whether gparted installed such x86 machine code. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record#System_bootstrapping The third paragraph seems to describe what you experience. A small program which looks for the bootable/active flag and executes the code at the start of that partition. > (I think it's relevant to say that I > tried to do the partitioning and formatting of the stick using fdisk and > mkfs.fat, having the same result in the end of the process, according to > gparted, meaning everything there looked the same, but I couldn't boot from > the stick doing it that way, I would get stuck in the black screen with the > blinking cursor.) Looks like gparted installed the code. But i cannot find hints in the web. Please show the first 512 bytes of the working stick: dd if=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=1 | od od -t x1 Have a nice day :) Thomas
