updating USB flash drive MBR to allow boot

[Bill Davidsen]

Javier Perez wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, das <dasd.here at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dasd.here at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, 29 May 2008 14:13:25 -0500
>     "Javier Perez" <pepebuho at gmail.com <mailto:pepebuho at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>      > I cannot make a bootable USB drive.
> 
>     Did you try fdisk to make the partition bootable before using
>     livecd-iso-to-disk?

>  
> 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.
>  
In theory you used "fdisk -l" to see if the partition was bootable or 
not, how about the practice?


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