[PLUG] creating a bootable FreeDOS USB flash drive

Jon Scully jonscully at gmail.com
Fri Aug 4 23:02:15 UTC 2006


> 3. If the USB drive lacks a valid master boot record(MBR), install one.
>    This can be done using the install-mbr command on Debian systems.  My
>    Redhat systems don't have this command, and I'm not sure what the
>    alternatives are.

lilo -M /dev/sdX

- or -

grub-install /dev/sdX --root-directory=/mnt/<mount_name>

But then you have to followup with LILO or Grub.

(HTH)



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