[Novalug] enable usb writes

Miguel Gonzalez Castaños miguel_3_gonzalez@yahoo.es
Tue Dec 11 11:34:20 EST 2007


It's pretty weird, I've been able to toggle the bootable flag on the 
/dev/sda1 partition. Also I run syslinux against the /dev/sda1

Now When It boots gives me:

MBR

Boot error

Miguel

greg pryzby escribió:
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> Is there a phsyical toggle on the device to write-protect?
>
> I assume you are doing this as root, correct? I also assume that
> /dev/sda is writable (ls -l /dev/sda)?
>
> w/o reading the doc, is grub a possibility? Just because...
>
> Miguel Gonzalez Castaños wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  I'm trying to run Debian on a USB flash drive, I'm following these
>> directions:
>>
>>  http://d-i.pascal.at/
>>
>>  and I'm using the live.debian.net images. I formatted the drive to
>> FAT16 and then I have tried to run the install-mbr or the lilo on
>> /dev/sda (the partition is /dev/sda1). However install-mbr doesn't give
>> any message, lilo gives me an error:
>>
>>  Fatal: creat /boot/boot.0800: Read-only file system
>>
>>  The tutorial talks about activating write protection, however I've
>> googled and I haven't found how to enable write protection in usb flash
>> drives
>>
>>  Any idea?
>>     
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