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

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.