cannot boot from LiveUSB

Hello all,

I have a memory stick of 8GB and I partition it like that:
The first partition is a big one approx 7GB for file transfers and stuff like that - is a FAT32 file system
On the second partition I made a opneSUSE 11.2 Live USB with the following command:

dd if=/path/to/iso/openSUSE-11.2-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M;sync

After that I plugged the usb in other computer to boot from USB but the system is freezing on a black screen.

I used the first partition for file transfer because Windows seems to see only the first one.

I don’t know if you can boot from a LiveUSB with the bootup partition being the second partition.

So there is no workaround for my problem I guess?

So Windows doesn’t see the 2nd partition? This may explain why I had some issues myself…

I wonder if you can set the ‘/boot’ partition in the first (windows accessible) partition and hide the files/icons?

This way, /boot is on the first partition, Windows sees the first partition but the grub-related stuff is hidden, and when booting to USB the /boot redirects to the 2nd partition?

I don’t know if the USB has a “master boot record” on it like hard drives. If there were, then it could be told to redirect to the 2nd partition.