Re: Creating a bootable USB key
Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> writes:
> brownh wrote:
>> Jimmy,
>>
>> I inadvertangly sent this message to you personally, but here send it
>> to the list.
>>
>> The directions for creating a bootable USB key don't mention running
>> cfdisk on it to make it bootable. I simply copied syslinux to the key,
>> but suspect I have to run cfdisk as well. Is that so?
>>
>> Haines Brown
>
>
> I use gparted and it works for me, I do as I describe in the post you
> are replying to.
Jimmy, sorry to follow your kind answer with a question about it. This
gnome application, gparted, is only described as a partition
manipulator (I don't use any desktop environment, and so I'm not
familiar with it). Does this "manipulation" include setting a boot
flag? If so, then does your answer imply that this flag does indeed
have to be set, despite an absense of its mention in some of the
directions for making a bootable USB key?
Haines Brown
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