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01-Feb-2007, 01:06 AM #1
Creating bootable USB pen drives
I used the command
dd if=/home/sathya/knoppix.iso of=/dev/sdb ibs=4b obs=1b conv=notrunc,noerror.
But while rebooting my comp with the USB drive as the first boot drive, I get "Insert bootable disk error". Why is it so?
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01-Feb-2007, 12:18 PM #2
Does your computer support booting from USB?
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01-Feb-2007, 11:23 PM #3
yeah..I guess.. I mean the BIOS allows me to select the USB drive as the first bootable disk. Doesn't this mean that it supports boot from USB?
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