Jerry Geis wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
Jerry Geis wrote:
>/ Hi
/>/ />/ I just grabbed an 8gig thumb drive, took disk 1 centos 4 i386, />/ copied the isolinux directory files to my thumbdrive, then ran syslinux />/ -sf /dev/sdc1
/>/ on the device plugged it into my laptop  and it does not boot.
/>/ />/ Is there a step(s) I am missing to get a bootable thumbdrive with centos?
/
I think you also need to add a boot sector to the drive. On my 64-bit system:

        #dd if=/usr/lib64/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdc
After doing your suggestion I get
same thing it just sets there with a blinking cursor.

Jerry
I took an older 512MEG usb instead of my 8 GIG one,
did the exact same steps and I get
Could not find boot image: linux

I copied all files what is missing?

It was just a guess. There were several more steps I have needed to do in the past in order to get Fedora Live CDs to boot off of thumb drives. I wish I could find the link but all I find now are instructions to use a Fedora script to create the thumb drive -- a script that doesn't seem to be immediately available for CentOS or RHEL.

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