Booting Slax from USB

[flipjargendy]

I've been trying for like three days to get Slax too boot from my USB drive. I thought that there might be something wrong, like the blocks were too large too boot from, on my old one so I purchased a new one. I've set my BIOS up to boot from a removable drive first then CD then HD. I have tried numerous guides telling me to use FAT32 or 16 and have even tried Ext2 and Ext3. I've reformated the drive made it bootable and all looks like the drive should be booting as far as fdisk tells me:

fdisk -l:

 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         486     3903763+   b  W95 FAT32

Does anyone have a helpful guide or information on getting this to work? I'm using a Kingston 4GB USB stick. It is this one: Kingston DataTraveler 4GB Flash Drive (USB2.0 Portable) Model DTI/4GB

[jayd512]

I've never tried to install SLAX on a flash drive, but maybe this will help.
Good Luck!

[wm_munny92]

I've had the occaisional battle with a USB installation. One thing that helps much is to bring up a CD or DVD based system with GRUB (Knoppix, Ubuntu, etc) and use that to write to the boot sector of your flash drive. After finding and setting up GRUB that way, it ought to boot.


There's a tutorial on single or multibooting Linux with GRUB on the 'net at:

AB9IL - A Bootable Linux USB Flashdrive