[syslinux] Syslinux & usb booting

[H. Peter Anvin]

Tomas M wrote:
> I had similar problem in the past.
> When set up in Windoz, the Flash Key was bootable.
> When in Linux, nothing.
> 
> My problem was solved by 'cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda'
> Simply said, if you write the bootloader (syslinux) to /dev/sda1 
> in Linux, it doesn't do anything unless you put a generic MBR code
> to the MBR area of your device. Because MBR is read and executed
> first, and then the MBR code looks for partitions and bootloader in sda1.
> 
> Syslinux in windows will write the MBR, but syslinux in Linux won't.
> Hope this helps.
> 

It won't (unless you use -m), but if you partition the disk in Windows, 
then I believe Windows will.

	-hpa