Scott, someone should probably get the details of how BootCamp knows that a partition has a bootable OS. Maybe it shows you all FAT32 or NTFS partitions as choices? Maybe it looks for a partition with a valid master boot record. If you can figure this out, then you'll just need to make this change to any Windows or Linux partition that you'd like, and have it be bootable.
On a PC, booting Windows from a flashdisk or external hard drive isn't easy. I bet it could work well with a Mac. Would be quite a demo. Bryan -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:13 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: using fdisk Hi Simon, Now that is an interesting idea, DD quite possibly could work. I would be curious how she pulled this off. Did she DD an iso perhaps? THat would certainly answer some questions. tnx, On Jan 12, 2010, at 3:17 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > A workmate of mine has done it, she took a ubuntu live disk and using > I think it was DD converted the disk into a bootable image then loaded > that on to the usb drive and we use it now for antivirus scanning of > laptop machines > > If I can get instructions off her, I'll pass them on. > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James & Nash > Sent: Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:24 a.m. > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: using fdisk > > Hi Scott, > > You wrote: >> Have any of you used fdisk from the Terminal in order to set the > boot flag on a file system, which is contained on a USB flash > drive/Thumb drive? I want to creat a bootable usb stick that I can > load a small Linux distro on. > > I haven't, but I will look into it for you if you like. In theory, > there should be no problem using fdisk as the Terminal is pretty > accessible with Voice Over. > > TC > James > On 11 Jan 2010, at 02:01, Scott Howell wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> Have any of you used fdisk from the Terminal in order to set the > boot flag on a file system, which is contained on a USB flash > drive/Thumb drive? I want to creat a bootable usb stick that I can > load a small Linux distro on. >> >> tnx,-- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > >
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