Re: Can't boot from pendrive

[mrr <mireero@free.fr>]

On 24/01/2015 16:10, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 24 Jan 2015 at 15:26:19 +0100, mrr wrote:
>
> > On 24/01/2015 13:30, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > > Hi all.
> > >
> > > From:
> > >
> > >   http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/
> > >
> > > I downloaded the file debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso and copied it onto a
> > > pendrive with:
> > >
> > >   $ dd if=debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=4M; sync
> >
> > If you create a /dev/sdc1 partition a launch the dd on it, does it work?
>
> This cannot work because the boot sector of the drive would not be
> written to.

So we have an answer as the OP finally installed the iso on sdb1!

> # fdisk -l debian-7.8.0-i386-netinst.iso
> You must set cylinders.
> You can do this from the extra functions menu.

What does that gives ?

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mrr