On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 23:32, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote: > Tero Saarni wrote: >>>> >>>> It is mentioned on the web page that the image could be written on USB >>>> drive but I can find only moblin-netbook-core-alpha1.iso. I believe >>>> ISO 9660 CD image does not boot if simply written on memory stick with >>>> dd, is there pre-built bootable filesystem image for USB memory sticks >>>> too? >>> >>> This is a hybrid image that boots both from a USB stick as well as when >>> burned on a CD. Very useful :-) >> >> What, how does that work? :-) Didn't work for me. >> > > we have found 3 caveats so far > > 1) If your USB stick is too small it is a problem > ("too small" is possible due to the difference between the marketing > megabyte > and the engineering megabyte ;-) > 2) The distribution on which you did the "dd" on automounts the fs that is > still being > written out and as part of that automount, it corrupts it > 3) Writing to /dev/sdb1 rather than /dev/sdb (assuming sdb is the usb > device) > > if you have none of these please provide more details of "didn't work" ... >
I did not have any of these problems, however the problem was solved, which you'll find if you read the replies on this thread (Eee BIOS had two HD related settings that were required for booting from USB key). In the unfortunate quote above I was actually asking how hybrid ISO/bootable HD image works. I should have left the "didn't work" part away. That was not problem description, I know. Although the web page [1] has good instructions on how to write the .iso to flash disk or burn it on CD, could it be mentioned there that it is a hybrid image that at the same time can be bootable HD image and valid ISO 9660 filesystem? I assume this is fairly new hack and not well known? For the curious who also saw this kind of image file now for the first time see isohybrid script [2] in the latest syslinux releases. -- Tero [1] http://moblin.org/documentation/getting-started-guides/test-drive-moblin/using-moblin-live-image [2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=blob_plain;f=utils/isohybrid.in;hb=HEAD _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
