> > 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. >
Maybe, if you haven't already tried, is to see if you can boot off the drive with some other non-debian live OS on it and see if you can even boot off of the drive that way. This could possibly help narrow down the issue at least. -- Romeo Theriault
