[syslinux] Problem booting from CF/SD cards and USB Flashdrives using syslinux
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Aug 1 07:24:19 PDT 2007
c.lee111 at gmail.com wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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
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