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Re: booting with usb

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On 04/08/2015 08:58 PM, William Unruh wrote:
> On 2015-04-08, Bill Cunningham <mospam@nspam.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> "William Unruh" <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote in message
>> news:mg44mm$p64$2@dont-email.me...
>>> On 2015-04-08, Bill Cunningham <mospam@nspam.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "William Unruh" <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote in message
>>>> news:mg3n5k$vfg$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>> Really we cannot read your mind. The only information we have is what
>>>>> you tell us.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that fstab is irrelevant for booting, and the usb drive will have
>>>>> an /etc/fstab of its own.
>>>>> No, booting is self contained and you do not need to do anything with
>>>>> initramfs. But first you need to tell us a huge amount more of what you
>>>>> are trying to do and what system you are trying to do it on.
>>>>
>>>> Oh yes sorry. Fedora 20. X64 computer with mbr not UEFI. I usually use
>>>> old
>>>> /dev/sdX in my fstab Not uuids. No gpt but mbr. My computer is 11 yo so
>>>> it's
>>>> legacy HD no SSDs.
>>>>
>>>>      I have tried many things. I have been told that booting with linux can
>>>> be
>>>> tricky. It's never worked for me yet and I've used many methods.
>>>
>>> It has always worked for me except on computers that cannot boot from
>>> USB (eg 1998 era computers). Are you sure you set up the bios to boot
>>> from usb before booting from the hard disk? And are you sure your system
>>> does not use efi?
>>> And that the fedora you have on the usbstick is not set up to boot from
>>> efi rathr than from mbr?
>>>
>>
>>      I've seen dumps of my mbr and made changes to it enough times I'm sure
>> it's an mbr. And for windows there's a vbr. I don't know about linux I am
>> running an ext3 filesystem. I don't know if it has a vbr or not. I purchased
>> my computer in 2004.
>
> That might be old enough that it cannot boot from usb.
> And yes, it will not have efi boot capability, so it has to be mbr
> No idea what vbr is.
>
> Get an "one" drive that you know will boot from usb, install it on your
> usb (as an iso not as a file) and try that. If that does not work, you
> computer probablycannot boot from usb. Either buy a new one, of get a
> cdrom drive that you can boot from.
>
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
	I went to the site and downloaded the zip file and it is not
an iso file contained but is a collection of what would be in the
iso file.  So using dd it is supposed to be copied to the USB drive
and made into a bootable drive using procedures they described on
the clonzilla web pages.

	Seems back-assward to me but I am not that skilled.
	It seems to me that some of my reading included copying a
special file to the Flash Drive from an iso file but this is
something else requiring the use of other programs.

	I think the OP needs to go back and re-read the
instruction given there.

	I have a problem with getting Kali onto a stick much
less getting it to boot and am going to go back and reread
the Kali instructions.

	bliss

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booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-07 22:00 -0400
  Re: booting with usb William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-08 17:05 +0000
    Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 13:20 -0400
      Re: booting with usb William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-08 20:56 +0000
        Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 18:27 -0400
          Re: booting with usb William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-09 03:58 +0000
            Re: booting with usb Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-09 07:44 -0700
              Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-09 16:51 -0400
                Re: booting with usb Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2015-04-09 15:57 -0500
                Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-09 18:19 -0400
                Re: booting with usb Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2015-04-09 17:50 -0500
          Re: booting with usb TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2015-04-10 14:30 -0400
            Re: booting with usb Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2015-04-12 03:24 +0000
              Re: booting with usb TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2015-04-12 09:14 -0400
    Re: booting with usb Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-04-08 19:15 +0000
      Re: booting with usb Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-04-11 15:03 +0000
  Re: booting with usb Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2015-04-08 12:51 -0500
    Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 14:10 -0400
      Re: booting with usb Roland Latour <no-one@nowhere.com> - 2015-04-08 13:28 -0500
      Re: booting with usb Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-08 11:33 -0700
        Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 14:39 -0400
      Re: booting with usb Johnny <johnny@invalid.net> - 2015-04-08 16:18 -0500
        Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 18:19 -0400
          Re: booting with usb Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2015-04-09 02:28 +0000
          Re: booting with usb William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-09 04:00 +0000
        Re: booting with usb William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-09 03:59 +0000
  Re: booting with usb Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-04-08 20:46 +0200
    Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 15:15 -0400
      Re: booting with usb Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-04-08 21:29 +0200
        Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <mospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 20:14 -0400
      Re: booting with usb Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-08 13:03 -0700
        Re: booting with usb TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2015-04-10 13:56 -0400
          Re: booting with usb Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-10 11:17 -0700
      Re: booting with usb William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-08 21:01 +0000
      Re: booting with usb Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2015-04-11 13:57 +0000
        Re: booting with usb "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-04-11 17:04 -0400
          Re: booting with usb TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business> - 2015-04-12 09:29 -0400
  Re: booting with usb Andreas Kohlbach <apr15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-04-08 17:54 -0400
    Re: booting with usb J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2015-04-08 23:18 +0000

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