Bug 143568

Summary:	LiveUSB: Bootflag?
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Markus Herhoffer <markus>
Component:	Installation Handbook	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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