fai-cd 3.3.4: problem creating boot image on USB stick

[Michael Tautschnig]

> Dear,
> The usb stick is formated has ext2 and a boot flag is added.
>
> usb information :
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdg1   *           1         122      979933+  83  Linux
>
> blkid
> /dev/sdg1: UUID="87b6c945-ead3-4ca0-8c44-758d326921f1" TYPE="ext2"
>
> i'm using fai-cd has these commands
>
> mounted usb stick
> # mount -t ext2 /dev/sdg1 /mnt
>
> #fai-cd -m /home/mirror -n -u /mnt
>
> fai send success after operation
>
> sent 711578750 bytes  received 212676 bytes  1590595.37 bytes/sec
> total size is 710838442  speedup is 1.00
> Root partition is  (hd2,0), device is: (hd2)
> Installing grub.
> Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
>
> But no computer want to boot on this stick, i have tried 3 computers,  
> with bios changed to boot on usb and none want to boot.
>

- Did you properly umount /mnt afterwards?
- Could you give some details on what "none want to boot" means? Some error
  message or the like?
- Some pages on the net claim that it may depend on your USB-stick whether it
  can be made bootable or not, so maybe try another USB drive.

HTH,
Michael

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