[syslinux] 512sector problem

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> Hello, I've got a boot image that is of size 1722, so to put it on floppy, I use
> dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0u1722  but if I try to run syslinux on this floppy
> afterward, I get:
> 
> [root at yoda root]# syslinux /dev/fd0u1722 
> /dev/fd0u1722: Sector sizes other than 512 not supported
> 
> Is there some way around this?  Can we use syslinux on this type of floppy disk?
>  Lilo works, but we would really like to move to Syslinux.
> 

Sounds like it's not a MSDOS-format floppy, in which case, so, you can't 
run SYSLINUX.

	-hpa