> >> I have a 1TB external USB-HD and would like to have debian rescue as boot >> partition and the rest as ext3 partition. >> I can't boot from the USB-HD. > > how did you put the image to the disk, first dd'ing the image, and then > creating the second partition? >
first dd if=debian-live-503-i386-rescue.img of=/dev/sdb then I created a extended partition with logical partition with fdisk then mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda5 My first thoughts why it doesn't boot was the extra partition I made, so I tried it again without the extra partitions. But the result was the same as before.
