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#1 2008-08-25 14:25:04

Roberth
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From: The Pale Blue Dot
Registered: 2007-01-12
Posts: 894

Can't boot from usb pen

Hello

I just bought today an usb pen to install arch on my netbook with, the pen was delivered with a fat16 filesystem.
First I downloaded the ftp install image for usb pens, then I dd'ed it to the pen:

[root@Magda DATA]# dd if=archlinux-2008.06-ftp-i686.img of=/dev/sdc1
299620+0 records in
299620+0 records out
153405440 bytes (153 MB) copied, 36.5289 s, 4.2 MB/s

When I booted it on the my netbook, all that appeared was:

GRUB

And nothing happend, then I tried again, i dd'ed the a new image to my usb pen, sticks it into my netbook and boot, but now it just skips and boot the installed linux system.

Anyone who can help me?


Use the Source, Luke!

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#2 2008-08-25 14:42:00

tardo
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Registered: 2006-07-15
Posts: 526

Re: Can't boot from usb pen

of=/dev/sdc

Last edited by tardo (2008-08-25 14:42:12)

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#3 2008-08-25 14:42:44

KimTjik
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From: Sweden
Registered: 2007-08-22
Posts: 715

Re: Can't boot from usb pen

The mistake is /dev/sdc1, which will leave to my knowledge some space untouched and hence grub won't work. Try istead: /dev/sdc (if that device label is consistent of course when you plug in the USB stick next time).

Hope this helps.

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#4 2008-08-25 18:51:11

Roberth
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From: The Pale Blue Dot
Registered: 2007-01-12
Posts: 894

Re: Can't boot from usb pen

Ah, thank you.


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