I recently bought a 8GB San Disk Pen Drive to use it as a Live USB because my old Kingston PD (4GB) gave me "Boot Error" !! I was happy when I was able to boot SchoolOS from the new 8GB PD by creating Live USB with Startup-disk-creator (Ubuntu) but after that when I formatted it and again the same problem of "Boot Error" is coming in this also!! I have tried formatting, partitioning but nothing worked for me searched Google got some links but even they didn't work for me!!
I have tried following other than the normal Format (Right-Click Option) in Fedora I did the following on Debian Lenny 1. fdisk /dev/sdb and then mkfs.msdos -F 16/32 /dev/sda1 (both FAT 16/32 didn't work) after that did install-mbr /dev/sdb and have also tried cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda got all this info from http://www.gratte.net/docs/html/usb_boot.html 2. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=128M and then dd if=/path-to/iso of=/dev/sdb bs=10240 conv=sync got this from http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8959 3. mkdiskimage -4 /dev/sdb 0 255 63 according to http://blog.programmerslog.com/?p=383 4. Used GParted and formatted as both FAT16 and FAT32 !! I used Unetbootin but still the same problem. I am really disappointed because I purchased the 8GB PD for this purpose only and now it too shows "Boot Error" Please help!! -- Parin Sharma http://twitter.com/FOSSmaniac Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
