On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Nathan England
<nathan@paysonlinux.org> 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
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
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