On Friday 08 August 2008 14:44, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I want F9 on a USB stick. It's 8GB, and comes with a few files concerned > > with using it on windows, so I don't really care whether they survive or > > not. > > > > Most of my hardware is not so young, and doesn't boot off usb sticks. > > However, the EeePC should do - it does from a Mandriva flash drive. It > > lists the drive, in BIOS, enclosed in [ ] which seems to mean that it is > > not bootable, so I looked at the drive with fdisk. It says > > > > Disk /dev/sdc1: 8120MB > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > > Partition Table: loop > > > > and that 'The flag 'boot' is not available for loop disk labels' > > > > Obviously I've done something wrong, but what? > > > > Anne > > Dumb question - did you run "fdisk -l /dev/sdc" or > "fdisk -l /dev/sdc1"? The first form is the correct one, and the > second one will give strange results. From the output it looks like > you used the second form. > Mikkel, I'm away from home and from the laptop I used to do the install, so I can't examine the history to find out. Mounting the drive in a running system shows all the expected directories under /media/Z Mate 8GB/DaneElec, and as you will see in my reply to Bill, fdisk shows /dev/sdc1 * 1 1023 8055071 83 Linux Anne -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
