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Another way to fix the MBR.
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* Also, check to see that you do not already have an existing bootloader (such as GRUB) in the MBR of your stick. (If you have not previously used this stick as a live boot, you can skip this step.) To be sure that the USB stick's MBR is wiped clean, overwrite it completely using:
 
* Also, check to see that you do not already have an existing bootloader (such as GRUB) in the MBR of your stick. (If you have not previously used this stick as a live boot, you can skip this step.) To be sure that the USB stick's MBR is wiped clean, overwrite it completely using:
 
: <tt>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1</tt>
 
: <tt>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1</tt>
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* (Actually, that didn't work for me. But this did:
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: <tt>lilo -M /dev/sdb</tt>
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:It put in a standard MBR that boots whichever partition has been called bootable. It does not install LILO as such.)
 
* Unmount the drive,<br>
 
* Unmount the drive,<br>
 
: <tt>sudo umount /dev/sdb1</tt>
 
: <tt>sudo umount /dev/sdb1</tt>
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