2008/8/1 Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Richard Shaw wrote: > >> >> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> >> You may have to run "syslinux -s /dev/sdd1". I forget where I >> found it, but with the version of syslinux included in F8, and >> probably F9, needs this before the USB key is recognized as a >> boot device. The latest version is susposed to handle this >> automatically, but it has not make it to F8 yet. >> >> Mikkel >> >> >> >> The livecd-iso-to-disk script does take care of this for you so I'm not >> surprised. If there are no errors generated then the USB drive and MB BIOS >> may just not like each other. If you can afford to buy a different brand usb >> memory stick I would try that. I use a 4GB Corsair Flash Voyager stick and >> it works fine in my HP 8510 laptop. >> >> Richard. >> >> I am trying to find where it said that again, but I know I had to do it > to make it work on my system when I used the livecd-iso-to-disk script from > the F9 live CD and an F8 system. The latest syslinux for F8 is > livecd-iso-to-disk script and you need version 3.5.0 or later for it to > work. (The F8 livecd-iso-to-disk script does not support persistent > overlays. > > There is a good howto at: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo > > > Mikkel >
I did notice the persistent overlay issue with the F8 version of livecd-tools so I copied the script that liveusb-creator put on my flash drive over my F8 version and it worked fine. Maybe more than the overlay option was changed between versions? I didn't do a diff of the two but I may do that when I get home from work. Richard
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