>> > Does the USB stick still boot? It looks like you wiped the wrong >> device. >> >> Bingo, right as usual! Apparently I wiped the USB stick. I ran fdisk >> and mk2fs -j again (do I want journaling?) and reinstalled Damn Small >> Linux on the stick. For some reason the laptop tell me "missing >> operating system" when I try to boot from the stick now. I need to >> test it on other systems. > > Grant, > > Take a deep breath and hhink about what you're doing for a second. Did > you just copy files to the stick and expect that it would boot? It' > still needs a bootloader (LILO, GRUB, SYSLINUX, or whatever) in order to > load the OS on the stick. Your dd wiped out *everything*
I think unetbootin installs a bootloader. It worked when I did the above yesterday. - Grant > When you finally do get the stick to boot, run fdisk -l or blkid or > whatever and make sure your target disk is actually what you think it > is. > > Anyway might save you some time in the long run... maybe not.
