lovingHDTV Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 It appears that there are two ways to make a usb stick bootable, one is to make it look like a hard drive, the other to make it look like a flash device. The way I did it following Raj's guide makes it look like hard drive. Does anyone know how to make it like a flash device? thanks, dave Link to comment
mr-hexen Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 under WIN7 this is what i experienced. when you insert the Flash Drive you have to make note where it ends up in "My Computer". If it shows up under "Devices with Removable Storage" then running make_bootable.bat as admin will work fine. However, and as in my case, it showed up under "Hard drives". In order to run make_bootable correctly I had to add another argument in the make_bootable.bat file. at the bottom is the command sys_linux, which makes the drive a boot drive. %~d0\syslinux -ma %~d0 i had to change -ma to -maf to Force it to assume its a flash drive. now that command is as follows in my make_bootable.bat file. %~d0\syslinux -maf %~d0 i believe this depends on the flash drive's identification within your computer. I assume when it finds a device it looks for signatures to tell it where it should go, and if it doesnt it assumes something depending on whatever. i guess its a crap shoot. Link to comment
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