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...rtitioning when doing this ("bs=440 count=1"). Can you make it boot then? If so you can compare the mbrs to see what's different if you want. For the partitioning: If not try partition the USB stick/disk with another partition tool. My experiences with gparted have been bad. With sfidks and fdisk acceptable (to add to the confusion, there were two different fdisks in Debian: one from util-linux and one from gnu-fdisk; gnu-fdisk seems to have disappeared in jessie). Do zero out the partition table first so you don't "inherit" any badness ("dd if=/dev/zero of=/d...

I used syslinux to make an external usb hard drive booting up "system rescue cd" from a FAT primary partition. The procedure I followed was setting on the boot flag on the FAT partition and copying the content of the iso image to it and renaming isolinux to syslinux wherever needed. I then unmounted the device and ran "syslinux -d /syslinux/ -i /dev/sdxn" where sdxn is the