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

Stephen Walsh steve at nerdvana.org.au
Wed Apr 11 17:23:44 MDT 2012


On 04/11/2012 04:20 PM, Mike Carden wrote:
> 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.
did you dd to the block device, or a partition?

ie - dd if=funkytools.iso of=/dev/sdf1

won't work

ie - dd if=funkytools.iso of=/dev/sdf

should work.


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