[clug] Help please - trying to make a USB stick boot

[Denise Bates]

On 04/11/2012 04:20 PM, Mike Carden wrote:
> I'm trying to help someone fix a broken Grub bootloader on an eepc
> that has USB ports but no optical drive.
>
> I have a copy of the boot-repair-disk iso from sourceforge and I would
> like to put it on a USB stick and boot the eepc with it.
>
> If I try to use Ubuntu's usb-creator-gtk to make the stick, it fails
> with an error message 'Invalid version string GNU/Linux' and the
> resulting stick boots to syslinux then stops for lack of a kernel. And
> indeed the .disk/info file inside the boot-repair-disk.iso does
> contain that string. The usb-creator tool is supposed to be
> distro-agnostic but that error would seem to indicate otherwise.
>
> So I tried to use unetbootin instead to create the stick but it
> complains about some unmet dependencies (things which *are* installed)
> and it fails too.
>
> So I tried just using dd but that makes a stick which won't boot so I
> guess there is more boot-fu that I need to make that work.
>
> Ideas anyone?
>
> Ta,
> MC
Try downloading Puppy Linux, burn it to a CD on a working machine, boot 
it up and install it to the USB stick via the "universal installer"

regards,

Denise