[Fedora-livecd-list] Making a livecd usb flash with fedora 7

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 09:33 -0400, William Cohen wrote:
> Does the process of generating an usb flash key with a live cd work?

Works great for me.  Unfortunately, different USB keys will sometimes
require some tweaking based on how they're shipped :-/

> I was trying to make a live usb flash image based on fedora 7. I was 
> unsuccessful. I was able to take a live image and copy it over to a usb flash 
> device using livecd-iso-to-disk command. However, the device did not boot. It 
> would print a message that Grub was starting up and then give an "Error 17". The 
> attempt was to create a FC7 i686 image using a x86_64 rawhide machine. The
>   I am wondering if there is some differences in what linux names the usb key 
> and what the bios names the device are causing the problems. The machine this is 
> running on is a compaq presario R3000.

A grub message?  We're not using grub for the F7 live images.  Did you
previously have a regular install on there?  If so, you probably need to
replace the mbr with a "stock" mbr with something like
   cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdX

Unfortunately, detecting this is pretty close to impossible :-/

Jeremy