Revision of Boot from usb drive from Mon, 05/12/2008 - 12:40

Submitted by andrew on Sat, 10/20/2007 - 21:14.

**Revised and clarified, 2008/05/12**

Here is the procedure for Ubuntu:

1- Make the USB flash drive bootable using SYSLINUX.

sudo apt-get install syslinux

syslinux /dev/sda1 (assuming the device is sda1 - Use the correct device name!)

2- Obtain the Ubuntu-Rescue-Remix disk (or just mount the iso as a loop filesystem) and copy the contents of the CD to your flash drive.

mkdir mnt

sudo mount -o loop ubuntu-remix-804.iso mnt

(Copy everything, including hidden files in the mnt folder to your usb drive.)

3- Move all the contents of the isolinux folder on the usb drive to the root directory of the usb drive.

4- Rename the file isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg

5- Boot the computer from your USB flash drive.

Ubuntu Rescue Remix