Live USB-stick format

[Bill Davidsen]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>> 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
>>
> OK - you have the boot flag. The problem may by that there isn't a boot 
> loader in the MBR. It depends on how the stick was formatted from the 
> factory. You may need to install makebootfat to make the stick bootable. 
> I think there is also a way to do it with syslinux, but I am not sure.
> 
makebootfat?? It's a Linux partition, hopefully one could boot a rescue 
disk, chroot to the stick, and grub install on the device. I'n assuming 
that Anne checked for the presence of the /boot partition on the USB, etc.

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