On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 23:21 -0600, inode0 wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:49 PM, inode0 <inode0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage >> > <dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso image is a DVD image that uses GRUB rather >> >> than isolinux to boot to a menu of Live CD ISO images. At 5.3 GB, it >> >> will not fit on an ordinary single layer DVD and requires a dual-layer >> >> DVD disc & drive. If it could be written to an 8GB USB thumb drive, it >> >> could be used to boot a system with a CD, an ordinary single-layer DVD, >> >> or no optical drive at all. >> >> >> >> The Fedora livecd-iso-to-disk utility cannot make a bootable USB from >> >> this image because it uses GRUB rather than isolinux like live CDs. I >> >> submitted a RFE to enhance l-i-t-d, but it was declined. I've tried >> >> using dd to copy the ISO image directly to the thumb drive: >> >> >> >> # dd if=Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=2048 >> >> >> >> but this does not produce a bootable device. Can anyone suggest a method >> >> that will work? >> > >> > I think you can do this with a couple additional tweaks to grub after >> > copying everything from Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso to the usb stick. >> > Please be careful and double check the commands below. >> >> Ok, I downloaded Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso and gave it a try. We can >> drop what I had as the first step. >> >> We need to partition the usb stick. I used ext2 (I expect ext3 is fine >> too) with just one partition. I used tune2fs with -c 0 and -i 0 to >> disable fsck and be sure to label the partition Fedora-14-multi. Then >> remount it. >> >> # echo '(hd0) sda' > /media/Fedora-14-multi/boot/grub/device.map >> >> I think we need a tab character between (hd0) and sda in the command above. >> >> You might need to do the following step from a machine where the usb >> stick is mounted on /dev/sda1 ... I'd have to test that to be sure but >> I recall grub-install being cranky otherwise. >> >> # grub-install --root-directory=/media/Fedora-14-multi --no-floppy '(hd0)' >> >> Now the usb stick is booting happily into the various live spins. >> >> John > > John, > > I'm confused. Are you operating on the thumb drive as /dev/sdX > (unpartitioned) or /dev/sdX1 (partitioned)? You need to partition the thumb drive. So in my case I mount /dev/sda1 on /media/Fedora-14-multi. I guess I didn't say how I got the content onto the thumb drive. I loopmount the orginal ISO and just cp -dR everything on it over to /media/Fedora-14-multi/, then do the two steps to setup grub on it. John -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
