Stewart Williams 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. > > Solved! Even though I got no errors, I tried this command from the LiveUSB howto: $ cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdg http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo#SYSLINUX_Boot_Error.21 I still got the error about the root fs not being found, so I used liveusb-creator to transfer the image again and to my amazement it worked! It boots and loads the desktop as expected. Yay! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
