Announcing K12Linux F10 Live Server
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
Wed Feb 4 19:04:30 UTC 2009
Phydeaux wrote:
>> I also had problems with booting from usb. Did you use the liveusb-creator
>> on linux or window$?
>>
>> I used it on window$ many times without success, and finally gave up and
>> burned it to dvd. Then it worked flawlessly.
>
> I used liveusb-creator on Windoze to with no problems. Will your
> machine boot from USB keys programmed from other .iso images?
>
There seems to be a problem with liveusb-creator. I do not know for
sure because I cannot reproduce these problems, but I suspect that it is
not successfully installing the boot loader when run from Windows.
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/ltsp/k12linux/f10/stable4/livecd-iso-to-disk
This script that should work on most Linux distributions with option
--reset-mbr is sometimes necessary to make a USB stick bootable. What
is the equivalent on Windows? I don't know.
Most machines boot from USB stick if it is installed on the first
partition, with the first partition marked bootable. (Example:
/dev/sdb1) Some machines however are only able to boot from USB if you
format the drive directly without partitions and install directly
(Example: /dev/sdb).
You can try these things if Live USB. If that doesn't work, then your
only option is to burn it on a DVD.
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
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