Copying mbr.bin error
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 7:16 pm
Just wanted to report an error I encountered when following the procedure to make the UBCD USB in Linux... namely, that the command described below would muck up my file system making syslinux not recognize it:
"4. Now, we write the syslinux mbr to the USB drive.
The mbr.bin file is located in ./ubcd/tools/linux/ubcd2usb/ of the extracted UBCD iso.
dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sdX (replacing X with your USB key drive letter)"
The above command wrecks the FAT file system I just set up whenever I run it causing an error wherein block sizes are irregular and producing an unmountable and generally unusable disk (until repartitioned and reformatted). I worked around the problem simply by copying the file to the base directory in the GUI. Is this a previously known error? Can I get a gold star or something?
"4. Now, we write the syslinux mbr to the USB drive.
The mbr.bin file is located in ./ubcd/tools/linux/ubcd2usb/ of the extracted UBCD iso.
dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sdX (replacing X with your USB key drive letter)"
The above command wrecks the FAT file system I just set up whenever I run it causing an error wherein block sizes are irregular and producing an unmountable and generally unusable disk (until repartitioned and reformatted). I worked around the problem simply by copying the file to the base directory in the GUI. Is this a previously known error? Can I get a gold star or something?