Comment 10 for bug 493129

I ran in the same problem here.

Here is what I've done:

* Prerequisite: An already used SANDisk U3 Cruzer 16GB (or any other stick laying around!)
* Under Linux: fdisk /dev/sdb -> Primary Partition created, Type W95 FAT32 ("b") (! not marked as active, as this is not required anywhere in your description on unetbootin.sourceforge.net!)
* Under Linux: mkdosfs /dev/sdb1
* Under Mac OS X 10.8: started Unetbootin, Installed Centos 6 from ISO to stick: All went fine!
* Plug it in Computer, try to boot from it -> did not work.
* Plug it in Linux Box, mark partition as bootable (fdisk -> a)
* Replug in Computer, try to boot from it -> Tada! It worked just fine!

If you don't get it to mark the partition as active (should not be THAT hard: it's just a byte/bit on disk, maybe you could get the code from syslinux source. there's an option "-a" for it...), it would be VERY NICE and CUSTOMER-FRIENDLY to -- AT LEAST -- mention this problem (and the obvious solution) on your website in the documentation.

Maybe you can change the "incomplete" status now and start working on the problem. Reading the comments above there are some more who have this problem and it is reproducable at least for me with different kinds of usb sticks. If you need further input please let me know.

It would be nice if such a great software like the unetbootin get this little glitch fixed.

Thank you and kind regards
Dom