[svlug] (Solved) "dd" first CD image to USB pendrive for booting?

[Bill-Schoolcraft]

At Mon, 11 Dec 2006 it looks like Seth David Schoen composed:

> Bill-Schoolcraft writes:
> 
> > At Mon, 11 Dec 2006 it looks like Bill-Schoolcraft composed:
> > 
> > Just got the following to work on another server...
> > 
> > Booted with the pendrive, entered BIOS and actually spent some time with
> > the boot options and chose "removeabl" in this case vs USB-CDROM and it
> > worked!
> 
> Sounds like an uncharacteristically flexible PC BIOS. :-)

What happened was I was going for the option of "USB-CDROM" and what I
was failing to see was when I had the pendrive "in" the USB slot,
another option would become available in the boot sequence menu named:
"Removeable" and it was only when I happened to look and see what was
inside that option did I discover my USB Pendrive there waiting by name.

So, the BIOS did in fact see it from the very beginning as a bootable
device, I was just looking to boot it as a "USB-CDROM" ...

Yet another learning experience in the world of Unix...

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