Re: Trouble booting from thumb drive...

[Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>]

Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> You can not expect to boot a random CD image as if it was a hard drive.
> You'll want to set up a USB flash drive as if it was a hard drive and
> place the relevant boot loader and install bits onto it.

There's a script for doing this in pkgsrc: sysutils/mkmemstick. 
Version mkmemstick-20111013 works for -current, -20090801 does not.
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Andreas Gustafsson, gson%gson.org@localhost