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Bug 143568 - LiveUSB: Bootflag?
Summary: LiveUSB: Bootflag?
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Docs Team
URL: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
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Reported: 2006-08-11 06:20 UTC by Markus Herhoffer
Modified: 2006-09-01 08:26 UTC (History)
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Description Markus Herhoffer 2006-08-11 06:20:20 UTC 
There should be a hint for adding the "bootable" flag for /dev/sda. Without this some (or all) systems won't boot.
Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-09-01 08:26:37 UTC 
Did you miss this instruction at the beginning?

"Create a FAT32 partition on your USB flash drive and mark it bootable using fdisk. An example partitioning scheme can be seen below:"

# fdisk -l /dev/sda

(...)
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1017     1023580    b  W95 FAT32