From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LvgA0-00034M-9g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:10:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F526E091E; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:10:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f165.google.com (mail-ew0-f165.google.com [209.85.219.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0AEE091E for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:10:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so735650ewy.34 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:10:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QC4uzeI+Xnxciv0ptyf1WPss/FxbOGbu1K2lqxlof3Q=; b=T0iDiTaBRdwwOqQMLIsYXjN4CPOC8fP0yuHi45cxvP2073OAeFUawlBUcKAfzrOrpC 6/anyp4hHACQx4PwJmZbDBzWsuz5tTUSmR7l8UBb6UlAy0/JPKVeLRd88cXyhp1ZjhT7 IufXtNDX7pzxRND1n8jH4LxM/8SsNL661muE0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GBGcAw+VTVbkdqyNF0QiwO6I/u1UBinPLDNZJg3c1S1UVzIp4AkQiK5a2bPo8MXWeh zVXmAJLRkDLbLgEv5vLbjzlwHQ2eGCC8mLQZbq7cuxuZYkDg5vG6J/Il5lbsKAFeMCGR 6o3XCPynuedsdf/GmnNFKejG6l5J9rIqHkPSg= Received: by 10.210.62.12 with SMTP id k12mr3049392eba.44.1240182649758; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:10:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?83.227.39.248? (c-f827e353.28-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se [83.227.39.248]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm363409eyh.25.2009.04.19.16.10.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:10:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49EBAF71.80102@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:10:41 +0200 From: Andreas Claesson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090409) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] liveusb not working References: <49E8BFDC.20506@gmail.com> <818541199.20090417225820@mail.ru> <49EB5B0A.6070008@gmail.com> <200904192351.50135.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200904192351.50135.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 801b32e2-84cc-4df4-aeec-0fabfcbf344c X-Archives-Hash: 10ebfe38da8f8e3520acf5150341ab1b Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 19 April 2009 19:10:34 Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: >>> Btw, did you set bootable flag for the partition with Gentoo? >> This was it. It all works now. > > That is ... weird > > To the best of my knowledge, nothing in Linux pays any attention to the state > of the bootable flag. Some apps set it so as not to confuse Windows. > > There must have been something in this thread that I missed > It is the BIOS that require the bootable flag. Some BIOSes seem to only boot from USB if there is a bootable partition on it. /Andreas