how can we make usb drive bootable

[gaurav92K]

sir., please tell me how can we make usb bootable through linux.

[RedSon]

Linux cannot make a drive bootable, it is your BIOS that does that. You will have to fiddle around with your BIOS settings.

[Nepomuk]

Linux cannot make a drive bootable, it is your BIOS that does that. You will have to fiddle around with your BIOS settings.

Actually, that isn't quite correct - you do need a Boot sector, if you want to boot something directly from the drive (in Linux and Windows since 2000 I think) that would normally be: load a bootloader).

This page contains something about making a partition theoretically bootable, but then you'll have to install a bootloader (like syslinux, grub or lilo) on there too. There's a quite detailed article about the whole process here.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[RedSon]

Actually, that isn't quite correct - you do need a Boot sector, if you want to boot something directly from the drive (in Linux and Windows since 2000 I think) that would normally be: load a bootloader).

This page contains something about making a partition theoretically bootable, but then you'll have to install a bootloader (like syslinux, grub or lilo) on there too. There's a quite detailed article about the whole process here.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

Yes but you still need to change your settings in BIOS to try a USB drive before a hard drive or a disc drive.

[Nepomuk]

Yes but you still need to change your settings in BIOS to try a USB drive before a hard drive or a disc drive.

Either that or open a menu that asks you, where you'd like to boot from. Nearly any modern BIOS offers that option for every single startup.

Greetings,
Nepomuk