Request: boot rescue environment from USB key

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Fri Mar 10 16:11:41 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 08:45 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> it only works if your USB device uses a partition table. The USB devices
> that don't use a partition table do not work in this way.
> At least that's my experience from last week trying to rescue my
> firewall from a dead disk 

Hrm, how else would you use the diskboot.img?  I always just backup the
contents of my usb key, then dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sdX  where X is
my usb fob.  Works for me every time...

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