[syslinux] Syslinux

ALFRED lfrdznash at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 12:59:14 PDT 2008


Hello Marc


I am having the same issue mentioned below. I ran the mkdosfs, and
received the following: /dev/sdb contains a mounted filesystem
Can you help?

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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