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 DE29913877A for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24442E0CC0; Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:56:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail101c7.megamailservers.com (mail717.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.27]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 14475E0CB0 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:56:48 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin@sys-concept.com X-VIP: 69.49.109.100 Received: from syscon2.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail101c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id s7VHuglS024705 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2014 13:56:44 -0400 Received: by syscon2.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9A1582EAF1E; Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:06:49 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:06:49 -0600 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB Message-ID: <20140831180648.GA4505@syscon2> References: <20140830053737.GA5867@syscon2> 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: <20140830053737.GA5867@syscon2> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020209.540361E0.004C,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=bYZSDo/B 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=pgVe75mjPiCwqDZdIq4A:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 X-Archives-Salt: 35ce6cf8-2577-46b8-917c-9ecbf96fe291 X-Archives-Hash: 7143f6ba72dd656afb6d3cf9d86798bf I've re-run the setup but it still doesn't work. df -h /dev/sda1 3.8G 190M 3.6G 5% /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa /dev/sda1 * 2048 7864319 3931136 b W95 FAT32 while usb not mounted: dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 440 bytes (440 B) copied, 0.00121707 s, 362 kB/s While usb mounted: cp -r /mnt/cdrom/* /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa mv /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa/isolinux/* /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa mv /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa/isolinux.cfg /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa/syslinux.cfg rm -rf /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa/isolinux* mv /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa/memtest86 /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa/memtest sed -i -e "s:cdroot:cdroot slowusb:" -e "s:kernel memtest86:kernel memtest:" /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa/syslinux.cfg umount /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa syslinux /dev/sda1 Does the "dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda" has to be run when USB is mounted or unmounted? -- Joseph