Bootable USB flash drive
- October 24th, 2012
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This one took a while. Essentially I had lost my other bootable USB flash drive and needed to make another one. I had previously used an HP utility which did the heavy lifting for me but I couldn’t find it on the interwebs nor my HD to save my life. I essentially had to use FreeDOS and SysLinux to get the job done. I’m pretty sure the wiki page I found was using an older version so I had to download FreeDOS 1.0 to find the fat32lba.bss file which was eluding me.
I will never lose this USB thumb drive…ever…bit of a nightmare really.
Useful links:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=USB
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ (I grabbed version 4.05!)
http://www.freedos.org/download/