Live USB-stick format

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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.
> 
You are correct - not one of my better days.

Mikkel
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