Re: Creating a bootable USB key

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

brownh wrote:
> 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?


Yes, with a right click on the partition you can set a boot flag using 
gparted, a great tool to have on hand, many ways to get GParted as a 
live cd or as an iso, 
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gparted or get PartedMagic 
with a lot more tools including TestDisk, Web Browser, File Manager 
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=partedmagic

As for the rest of your question, I'm just telling you what works for 
me, if I want to boot a drive, Hard Drive or Flash Drive, I put a boot 
flag on it.
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Jimmy Johnson

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