[syslinux] Re: Trying to figure out why my Cruzer Micro 512"MB" won't boot.

[Nazo]

On 4/27/06, Josh Lehan <jlehan at scyld.com> wrote:
> Nazo wrote:
> > Hi.  I'm ressurecting an old thread just to inform anyone who may be
> > interested that I have finally gotten my SanDisk Cruzer Micro to boot.
> >  I'm not sure if it was more luck than anything else or what.
> > Firstly, I was using syslinux-3.20-pre6 (pre7 wouldn't run on the live
> > disc I was using) and the mkdiskimage which came with it.  I just used
> > the standard command "./mkdiskimage -4 /dev/sda 0 64 32" to make the
> > image, then used "./unix/syslinux-nomtools /dev/sda4" to install.
> > Every now and then it doesn't boot unless I take the drive out and put
> > it back in just after the system has rebooted, but, now it does work.
>
> Good job.  I have a 1GB Cruzer Micro, that I eventually got to boot as
> best as possible using SYSLINUX.  My goal was to fit a bootable Knoppix
> CD image on it, with room to spare, so 1GB was the perfect size (a sale,
> at the time, made it affordable).
>
> I don't have a BIOS that requires USB-ZIP in order to boot, so can't
> test this.  On computers I have access to, the BIOS is so new that it
> accepts everything (USB-HDD included), or it is so old that it doesn't
> recognize USB boot devices at all.
>
> People have reported success with the HP USB key formatter.  I analyzed
> what it did, on this thread:
>
> http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23558
>
> Lots of links posted there, over time.  In short, successful USB booting
> is still a black art, very hit-or-miss, kind of like how CD-ROM booting
> in the mid-1990's was.
>
> Josh
>
Yeah, I know of the HP tool.  I actually tried it first and curiously
enough it didn't work.  Truth be told, NOTHING worked.