On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Nathan England wrote: > > I am trying to make a bootable USB flash drive. This is just a regular 2 GB > PNY flash device from walmart for 12 bucks. Nothing special. I have read a > dozen sites how to make this work, and they all focus on formatting the > device > with fat16. However, I have a PC-BSD image that I dd'd onto it and it boots > and works just dandy, however it does not have a fat16 partition on it. > If it boots and works just dandy, why would you care if it has a FAT16 partition on it? > > How do I create a bootable flash drive with an ext partition? > Gparted, Parted Magic, etc can do this trivially. As you indicate below the issue may be the image you are putting on it and maybe GRUB. I do not know what PC-BSD is, but take a look at unetbootin at http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ which can make bootable flash drives for many systems including FreeBSD and NetBSD. > This really cannot be this complicated, can it? My laptop will boot off a > USB > device. I tried just creating a partition and formatting it ext2, making it > bootable with fdisk and putting what I wanted on it, however I just get > errors... and not the kind like my boot scripts are not working. I have so > far used GRUB... maybe that is my problem, but everything else uses > syslinux, > which again, wants fat16... > Can you say "Thank you, Bill"? > > I appreciate any help or pointers, > > Nathan > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson