<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Bill Davidsen <<a href="mailto:davidsen@tmr.com">davidsen@tmr.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Javier Perez wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, das <<a href="mailto:dasd.here@gmail.com" target="_blank">dasd.here@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:dasd.here@gmail.com" target="_blank">dasd.here@gmail.com</a>>> wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:13:25 -0500 </div><div class="Ih2E3d"> "Javier Perez" <<a href="mailto:pepebuho@gmail.com" target="_blank">pepebuho@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:pepebuho@gmail.com" target="_blank">pepebuho@gmail.com</a>>> wrote: > I cannot make a bootable USB drive. Did you try fdisk to make the partition bootable before using livecd-iso-to-disk? </div></blockquote> <div class="Ih2E3d"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> no In theory the livecd_to_usb program was supposed to make it bootable as part of the process. At least that is my understanding. </blockquote></div> In theory you used "fdisk -l" to see if the partition was bootable or not, how about the practice? -- Bill Davidsen <<a href="mailto:davidsen@tmr.com" target="_blank">davidsen@tmr.com</a>> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> Ok I just arrived back home. In practice it was marked as bootable. I downloaded the testdisk program and noticed a couple of interesting things. As I said, my flash drive is a Kingston Data Traveler 8GB Look at this extract of the created log TestDisk 6.9, Data Recovery Utility, February 2008 Christophe GRENIER <<a href="mailto:grenier@cgsecurity.org">grenier@cgsecurity.org</a>> <a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org">http://www.cgsecurity.org</a> Linux version (ext2fs lib: 1.40.8, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: none, ewf lib: 2) Hard disk list Disk /dev/sda - 163 GB / 152 GiB - CHS 19929 255 63, sector size=512 - ATA Maxtor 6L160P0 Disk /dev/sdb - 250 GB / 232 GiB - CHS 30401 255 63, sector size=512 - ATA WDC WD2500BB-55R Disk /dev/sdc - 8011 MB / 7640 MiB - CHS 1021 247 62, sector size=512 - Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Disk /dev/sdc - 8011 MB / 7640 MiB - Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Partition table type: Intel Analyse Disk /dev/sdc - 8011 MB / 7640 MiB - CHS 1021 247 62 Geometry from i386 MBR: head=16 sector=32 BAD_RS LBA=32 62 FAT32 at 0/0/33 Info: size boot_sector 15646688, partition 15646688 FAT1 : 2256-17511 FAT2 : 17512-32767 start_rootdir : 32768 root cluster : 2 Data : 32768-15646687 sectors : 15646688 cluster_size : 8 no_of_cluster : 1951740 (2 - 1951741) fat_length 15256 calculated 15248 heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD) sect/track 32 (FAT) != 62 (HD) Current partition structure: Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 247 (HD) Warning: Incorrect number of sectors per track 32 (FAT) != 62 (HD) 1 * FAT32 LBA 0 0 33 1021 179 28 15646688 [LITTLE OWL] I wonder if that might have something to do with it? maybe if I reformat and repartition the drive.... This inconsistency might be what makes the drive non bootable, because maybe the BIOS is expecting something (cylinders, heads) and the drive is givng it something that it cannot make sense of. JP -- ------------------------------ /\_/\ |O O| <a href="mailto:pepebuho@pananet.com">pepebuho@pananet.com</a> ~~~~ Javier Perez ~~~~ While the night runs ~~~~ toward the day... m m Pepebuho watches from his high perch.