Invalid or Damaged Bootable Partition?

Forum: USB booting
Topic: Invalid or Damaged Bootable Partition?
started by: Zonoid

Posted by Zonoid on April 03 2005,19:31

Hi,

I've followed many tutorials on installing DSL on flash drives. However, when I restart my computer with the flash drive in, it says, "Invalid or damaged Bootable partition". I currently use Windows XP. Could someone walk me through what I need to do to fix this?

Thanks!

Posted by Zonoid on April 04 2005,00:35

Does anyone know of a program I could download, (not fdisk), to partition my USB drive?

Posted by cbagger01 on April 04 2005,04:06

1. Download the DSL ISO file.
2. Use a cd burning program like Nero to burn the image file to a CD-R disk.
3. Set your computer BIOS to allow for CDROM booting.
4. Boot up into DSL from the CD-R disk.
5. Open an Xterminal window
6. Type:

sudo cfdisk /dev/sda

and start partitioning your thumb drive.

This assumes that your thumb drive is located at device name sda. This is usually true unless you have a SCSI hard drive or an external USB hard drive installed in your computer system.