[syslinux] not valid FAT fs

Marc Haisenko haisenko at comdasys.com
Tue Jul 10 03:00:07 PDT 2007


On Tuesday 10 July 2007 11:16, Visar Zejnullahu wrote:
> hi I'm new to this, and already havin some trouble :(
> 
> I tried to make my usb pen drive bootable with sysliux, but I got this 
message:
> 
> syslinux: this doesn't look like a valid FAT filesystem
> 
> But I already formatted the usb pen drive int FAT16 fs with cfdisk AND
> with qtparted (in both cases I got the same message).
> 
> Anyone that could help me about this?

You have PARTITIONED it, but you haven't FORMATED it. Run mkdosfs on the 
created partition first.
	Marc

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