Creating Live USB with grml2usb

I would like to put grml live cd on usb drive. I created bootable w96 fat32 partition and formatted it using mkfs.vfat. I ran "grml2sub grml.iso /dev/sdb1".
I am getting boot error.
I tried to create live usb with unetbootin. This worked. Would anyone have an idea what is going wrong?
Thanks in advance

* Roman Gelfand wrote [16.03.11 17:34]: Hi,
I would like to put grml live cd on usb drive. I created bootable w96 fat32 partition and formatted it using mkfs.vfat. I ran "grml2sub grml.iso /dev/sdb1".
I am getting boot error.
I am sorry to hear that. What was exactly the problem? Can you write the message down or make a screenshot with a camera? Without any further information we can't help you.
Ulrich

The error I am getting when booting is "Boot error" displayed on a black screen. The grml2usb troubleshooting documentation suggests I should partition and format usb drive with "mkdiskimg -4 /dev/sdb 1024 64 32" for USB-ZIP configuration. I did that and still getting "Boot error". At the same time when I use unetbootin utility to create a bootable usb drive, it works. Are you saying, in this case, the usb drive appears to BIOS neither as usb-hdd not usb-zip?
Thanks in advance
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Ulrich Dangel mru@grml.org wrote:
- Roman Gelfand wrote [16.03.11 17:34]:
Hi,
I would like to put grml live cd on usb drive. I created bootable w96 fat32 partition and formatted it using mkfs.vfat. I ran "grml2sub grml.iso /dev/sdb1".
I am getting boot error.
I am sorry to hear that. What was exactly the problem? Can you write the message down or make a screenshot with a camera? Without any further information we can't help you.
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Roman,
On 17 March 2011 04:01, Roman Gelfand rgelfand2@gmail.com wrote:
The error I am getting when booting is "Boot error" displayed on a black screen. The grml2usb troubleshooting documentation suggests I should partition and format usb drive with "mkdiskimg -4 /dev/sdb 1024 64 32" for USB-ZIP configuration. I did that and still getting "Boot error". At the same time when I use unetbootin utility to create a bootable usb drive, it works. Are you saying, in this case, the usb drive appears to BIOS neither as usb-hdd not usb-zip?
You could try cloning the unetbootin USB stick configuration. What works or doesn't heavily depends on your BIOS.
grml2usb depends on syslinux for booting. If you didn't use the latest grml version to run grml2usb, you might want to try upgrading syslinux (4.x should be fine). 'Boot error' means syslinux couldn't find it's second stage loader.
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