On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:21 PM, cornel panceac<cpanceac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/7/10 Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com>
>
> I have an interesting phenomenon for install (failure) off a usbkey for
> F11
> that I would like to understand.
>
> I used the method at
>
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#How_to_Make...
> (which I wrote), to try and install F11 on a Samsung NC10 netbook. The
> livecd-iso-to-disk command was executed on a machine running up to date
> F11
> to create the bootable key. The NC10 would not boot at all off the key,
> and
> just gave a single cursor and nothing else. The boot flag was indeed set.
>
I have also experienced this and the key to solving it is using ext3
(Linux / 83) file system instead of dos filesystem. while creating
partition use 83 as the filesystem type and then format the usb disk
using mkfs.ext3 . It will work. See this [1] for details.
[1]
http://sherry151.blogspot.com/2009/03/live-usb-magic.html
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Regards
Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury
Fedora Ambassador
sherry151(a)gmail.com