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Subject: [twincling] error: activate failed
From: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan () twincling ! org>
Date: 2009-03-24 3:17:35
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0903240815430.16106 () localhost
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Hi:
i'm trying to make a bootable USB stick from the openSUSE 11.1
netinstall ISO image.
The USB stick details with partition info is as follows.
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 2004 MB, 2004877312 bytes
62 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3844 * 512 = 1968128 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6f20736b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 261 501611 6 FAT16
/dev/sdb2 262 1018 1454954 83 Linux
/mnt/boot/i386/mkbootdisk --32 --partition /dev/sdb1 /mnt
disk /dev/sdb, partition /dev/sdb1
error: activate failed
Any pointers to what i could be missing here ?
thanks
Saifi.
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<p>Hi:<br>
<br>
i'm trying to make a bootable USB stick from the openSUSE 11.1<br>
netinstall ISO image.<br>
<br>
The USB stick details with partition info is as follows.<br>
<br>
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb<br>
<br>
Disk /dev/sdb: 2004 MB, 2004877312 bytes<br>
62 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 3844 * 512 = 1968128 bytes<br>
Disk identifier: 0x6f20736b<br>
<br>
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
/dev/sdb1 * 1 261 501611 6 FAT16<br>
/dev/sdb2 262 1018 1454954 83 Linux<br>
<br>
/mnt/boot/i386/<wbr>mkbootdisk --32 --partition /dev/sdb1 /mnt<br>
disk /dev/sdb, partition /dev/sdb1<br>
error: activate failed<br>
<br>
Any pointers to what i could be missing here ?<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
Saifi.<br>
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