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 -- 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
