hey, im trying to stick toms boot onto a usb key drive..
My thinkpad supports booting from it, but I cant seem to get it to work..
Heres what I did..
1. got the tomsrtbt-2.0.103.ElTorito.288.img.bz2
and uncompressed it..
made an iso image with it
 mkisofs -b boot/tomsrtbt-2.0.103.ElTorito.288.img -c boot.catalog -o
bootme.iso myusb

then did the dd if=bootme.iso of=/dev/sda1  (which is the usb drive)

but I cant boot off of it..

when I mount the usb drive.. heres all I got..

[jason@zim tomsboot]$ cd /mnt/usb/
[jason@zim usb]$ ls -al
total 10
dr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         2048 Jan 29 15:08 ./
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root         4096 Jan 29 12:14 ../
dr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         2048 Jan 29 15:09 boot/
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         2048 Jan 29 15:10 boot.cat*
[jason@zim usb]$ ls -al boot
boot      boot.cat
[jason@zim usb]$ ls -al boot
total 2884
dr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         2048 Jan 29 15:09 ./
dr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         2048 Jan 29 15:08 ../
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root      2949120 Jan 29 15:09 tomsrtbt.img*
[jason@zim usb]$



does this look right? what am I missing?

regards,
Jason


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