Re: unable to boot from USB drive
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > Next I transferred boot.img, debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso onto a USB drive.
> > Instructions on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en
> > say that these two files are sufficient to start the installation process.
>
> You don't copy boot.img onto the drive as a file. You need to
> overwrite the drive's existing data with the filesystem in that file.
> The manual you've linked to shows how to do that from a linux system.
It might be a good idea to add a note about how to use syslinux to
install an MBR, as install-mbr seem to be Debian-specific. I prepared a
etch USB-stick install from a RedHat system the other day by doing
'$ cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sda'
Reply to: