Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Stewart Williams > <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am trying to create a LiveUSB drive using a 2GB USB flash drive, but >> I'm being unsuccessful for some reason. >> >> Ideally I was hoping to create one based on Omega-10, but I get the same >> problems with Fedora. >> >> Here's what I have tried: >> >> 1. Creating a LiveCD from omega-10-desktop.iso and boot it (which works >> fine). >> Plug in USB stick, fdisk it as one partition, type 6 (fat 16) then >> format it by running 'mkfs.msdos -F 16 -n usbdisk /dev/sdg1' >> As root running 'livecd-iso-to-disk /dev/live /dev/sdg1' >> Seems to complete without error >> >> 2. Boot Fedora 9 install on my desktop and prepare the USB stick as above >> Run liveusb-creator GUI and select /dev/sdg1 as target, and >> omega-10-desktop.iso as source (Also tried F10-Live-i686.iso as source) >> Completes without error >> >> However when I try and boot of the stick either by physically booting >> using the BIOS or testing with QEMU I get the following errors: >> >> Running 'qemu -hda /dev/sdg -m 256 -std-vga' or booting using a physical >> PC I get a garbled prompt >> >> http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?07644a5805.png >> >> Running 'qemu -hda /dev/sdg1 -m 256 -std-vga' I get an error stating >> that it can find the root filesystem >> >> http://www.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?159f02408f.png >> >> Does anyone know what I may be doing wrong? >> >> Many Thanks. > > It looks like in the first case it doesn't like the MBR. I get > something similar when I leave my iPod connected to my work laptop on > reboot. One thing, not all usb sticks like all BIOS's. It could be the > stick, it could be your BIOS, no good way to tell that I know of. > > Richard > Hi Richard I don't think it's a BIOS issue, as I've tried to boot from it on 2 different desktops, an eee-pc and qemu. But it could be the stick. I will try another and report back. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines