[ale] USB booting issues

[James P. Kinney III]

Do you need to use the "dos bootable flag"? 

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 11:57 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> It seems that the partition will only be bootable when it looks like
> this:
> [root at cfowler tmp]# fdisk /dev/sda
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 524 MB, 524025856 bytes
> 34 heads, 63 sectors/track, 477 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2142 * 512 = 1096704 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *         1       235    251408    4  FAT16 <32M
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
>      phys=(249, 33, 63) logical=(234, 26, 13)
> 
> Command (m for help): 
> 
> That is where the partition has different physical or logical endings.
> 
> If I delete the partition and recreate it just like this but not with
> different physical and logical endings it fails to boot.  It seems that
> windows partitions the stick this way. 
> 
> If I do the following
> 
> # sfdisk -d ./dev/sda > /tmp/sda.out
> # sfdisk --force /dev/sda < /tmp/sda.out
> # syslinux /dev/sda1
> 
> Then it fails to boot.
> 
> Any way to manually partition this in linux and make it boot?
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 10:28, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I've got a handheld USB stick I can not get to boot.  It is a 512M
> > stick.  If I dd my 256M's data on it then it boots just fine but when I
> > try to create the partition manually, format as FAT32 and do a syslinux
> > it will not boot.  Is there a known issue with sticks this large?
> > 
> > 
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