How to make a USB stick bootable

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2007-11-27 05:28

"USB sticks are really useful. Not only for transferring files between computers, but also also rescue media, or more generally, to boot from. However, making a USB stick bootable can turn out to be tricky. This small howto describes the tricks that I discovered over the last years. The following commands assume the necessary package to be installed under Linux. It has been tested with Debian GNU/Linux sid (unstable as of 2006-06-26) with packages mbr (1.1.8-1), syslinux (3.11-3), and grub (0.97-11)."

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