[syslinux] 2GB USBkey and mkdiskimage

[Ole Jacob Taraldset]

On Friday 05 May 2006 16:12, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ole Jacob Taraldset wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to make a USB-ZIP bootable filesystem on my USBkey, which is
> > 2GB. The problem is that "mkdiskimage -4 /dev/sda 0 64 32" fails due to
> > the large size. The number of sectors is 4005888/(64*32) = 1956, which is
> > more than the maximum 1024.
> >
> > Is there any way around this or is it just not possible to make this
> > USBkey look like a Zip drive?
>
> Sort-of-kind-of.  If you're sensitive to geometry, you care about C/H/S
> addresses, which does require that C <= 1023.  What you can do is you
> could create a drive with two partitions and boot from the firs one.
>
> 	-hpa

Thanks for your answer. How exactly would you do that?

-Ole Jacob

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