OK, I will reply here instead on my blog :)
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Michal, my attempt to boot from a flash key the live iso presented here [ed: aros-efika-20090308.iso.bz2] did not quite succeed. It reached a point where it had loaded everything from menu.lst, had cleared/overwritten a char (or two) at the upper-left corner of the screen, had unmounted and re-mounted the flash key (judging by the key's LED activity), but having done all that it just stood there, motionless.
OK, it seems no bootable volume has been found. I guess I shall add some kind of requester/boot picture explaining that :)
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I had dd'ed the iso onto the flash, so the latter fs was iso9660.
Pity to hear that. Unfortunately AROS is not so good in autodetection of file systems. Therefore, it assumes that
unpartitioned removable devices (eg. CD/DVD/CD over USB) have iso9660 fs. The
unpartitioned non-removable devices are assumed to be FAT formatted. This is the reason why AROS did not found bootable device. It was expecting your USB stick to be fat formatted. But, even if you would do it so and use FAT flash key, AROS will not boot from it, as our FAT filesystem is not bootable at all at this moment.
AROS can boot only from iso9660 (from removable device), FFS and SFS.
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edit: wait, do i need to have the flash key formatted as one of those two amiga fs?
Yes.
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would the OF even see that?
Yes.