> I noted in an earlier post today, I did get it working on one of my usb > drives, but it seems sort of a hacky configuration.
Part of the issue is that the ISO images have historically been created with a lot of care to make them bootable in a wide variety of contexts. Maybe nowadays things are simpler, but in the past, booting from a CDROM or a floppy worked a bit differently than booting from an HDD, and then things got worse with the introduction of GPT partitions and the UEFI boot protocol, so you had different ways to boot from an HDD with different tools handling the different options differently (e.g. some reading only the GPT, other reading only the MBR partition table, others reading both with different preferences), so it sometimes required a lot of care to make sure that your Linux kernel, your boot loader, and your BIOS all agreed about what is where. E.g. not sure if current ISOs have both a GPT and an MBR partition table, but if that's the case, you may have to change both consistently if you want to add a partition. === Stefan
