[syslinux] Problem booting from CF/SD cards and USB Flashdrives using syslinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

c.lee111 at gmail.com wrote:
>
> 
> I don't know about this. As you can see this CF card formatted under 
> Windows 98se is a 1 gig card......
> 
> 
>  Volume in drive A is 1-GIG      
>  Volume Serial Number is 1EEA-2658
>  Directory of A:\
> 
> COMMAND  COM        93,890  04-23-99 10:22p
> 1-GIG    TXT             0  07-31-07 11:21p
>          2 file(s)         93,890 bytes
>          0 dir(s)   1,024,770,048 bytes free
> 
> And Linux Fdisk seems to see it as a dos-partitioned hardrive rather 
> than a (super) floppy.
> 
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 1025 MB, 1025482752 bytes
> 62 heads, 15 sectors/track, 2153 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 930 * 512 = 476160 bytes
> 
>      Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>    /dev/sdb1   *         1      2154   1001447+   6  FAT16
> 

This is kind of interesting.  The partition crosses the cylinder 1024 
boundary, and yet has type 6.  This is plain unusable for MS-DOS, and 
wrong for Win98SE (which would expect partition type e).  That normally 
means the geometry is wrong, but that usually causes fdisk to complain.

	-hpa