Re: [Clonezilla-live] booting USB drive

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Another approach is to use the testing/unstable clonezilla live:
http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/download/nchc/testing/
http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/download/nchc/experimental/
1.0.9-18 or 20080306b-hardy.
And run makeboot.bat in windows to make your usb flash drive bootable.
Those releases contains the latest syslinux (3.62) and it supports
kernel in the subdirectory.

WARNING!: ***DO NOT RUN*** makeboot.bat from your local hard drive! It
should only be run from your USB flash drive. Executing it incorrectly
could cause your MS windows not to boot!!!

If you want to use syslinux on linux to make your usb flash drive
bootable, remember to use syslinux 3.35 or later.

Steven.

Spiros Georgaras wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 March 2008 Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Is there a difference in booting from a usb flash drive and a full size
>> drive that has a partition table?   I'd like to make a self-contained
>> bootable/writable external drive with space to store images but haven't
>> been able to make it boot into clonezilla-live without using a separate
>> flash drive or CD.
> 
> Before doing anything else, you must make sure your BIOS supports booting from 
> USB. If this is not the case, anything else would be useless...
> 
> I'd say the correct procedure would be
> 1. copy all files from CD to USB
> 2. move all files from dir isolinux to the root dir of the USB
> 3. move all files from dir casper  to the root dir of the USB
> 4. create syslinux.cfg on the root dir of the USB
>   run the command:
>     sed 's|/casper/||' isolinux.cfg > syslinux.cfg
> 5. make your USB bootable using syslinux
>     syslinux /dev/sda4
>   assuming your USB device is /dev/sda4
> 
> I have just performed this procedure and it woks (tested it with qemu)
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> 
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