[syslinux] "sector read error" with Syslinux
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Aug 4 19:22:24 PDT 2008
Krista0B wrote:
>
> I get the "read sector error" after entering "syslinux -ma e:". I checked
> the Syslinux incompatible-hardware-list, etc., and am coming up blank. I
> also did a "thorough" scandisk to make sure it wasn't telling me there's
> some physical error on the boot sector or somesuch :-) but the drive is
> perfect.
>
This means that Syslinux requested reading your USB disk, but got an
error back from Windows. Without more information, that's all I can
tell you at this point.
There are some USB sticks which have "magic" MBRs, and some others which
have 1024-byte sectors; both are rare but existent.
Either way, please give as much information as you can (versions of
Windows, what *exact* steps you took from the beginning, etc.) and we
might be able to figure something out.
-hpa
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