From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89841138A2F for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 06:32:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62BBDE0E30; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 06:32:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail142c7.megamailservers.com (mail111c7-2520.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.21]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59911E0DF1 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 06:31:59 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin@sys-concept.com X-VIP: 69.49.109.100 Received: from syscon7.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail142c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id s7U6VtXa019666 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 02:31:57 -0400 Received: by syscon7.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A0D0C20027A; Sat, 30 Aug 2014 00:32:10 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 00:32:10 -0600 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Message-ID: <20140830063210.GA16350@syscon7> References: <20140830053737.GA5867@syscon2> <3026531.i7jLFPyOLq@andromeda> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3026531.i7jLFPyOLq@andromeda> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020206.54016FDE.007A,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.1 cv=aZZYw3Yt c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:117 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:17 a=SDcUNfBxAAAA:8 a=BDKbP5mgAAAA:8 a=Unq3plm5DvEA:10 a=M1kyBYkWWGkA:10 a=SuFnMd4Av3cA:10 a=-sCtj0qjysgA:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=7mOBRU54AAAA:8 a=ui2pVsQuqc-veY3-o0IA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 X-Archives-Salt: aad9992d-0a2c-4479-bdcc-1572d52b15ad X-Archives-Hash: 28fe891b7f3298dc9cb61cd975a3b5cf I think I've missed: dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda1 On 08/30/14 08:15, J. Roeleveld wrote: >On Friday, August 29, 2014 11:37:37 PM Joseph wrote: >> I'm trying to make my 4GB USB bootable and it is not working. >> >> df -h >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> ... >> /dev/sda1 3.8G 190M 3.6G 5% /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED >> >> fdisk -l >> ... >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/sda1 * 1064 7864319 3931628 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) >> >> Here are the steps I'm following: >> mount -o loop,ro -t iso9660 >> /home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso /mnt/cdrom/ cp -r >> /mnt/cdrom/* /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED >> mv /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/isolinux/* /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/ >> mv /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/isolinux.cfg >> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/syslinux.cfg rm -rf >> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/isolinux* >> mv /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/memtest86 >> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/memtest sed -i -e "s:cdroot:cdroot slowusb:" -e >> "s:kernel memtest86:kernel memtest:" >> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/syslinux.cfg umount >> /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED/ >> syslinux /dev/sda1 >> >> The above steps are from: >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO >> >> Where is my mistake? > >You're not following all the steps. > >-- >Joost > -- Joseph