[syslinux] Problems to get booting Flashkey
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Sun Mar 16 02:32:14 PDT 2008
Daniel Rindt wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> iam following to this howto:
> http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick
> but when iam try the command:
> # syslinux /dev/sda1
> it writes only into the FAT partition the files they need, but mbr still
> is empty after. iam do this:
> # dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/mbr.dd bs=512 count=1
> and open it with ghex2 in my case and see only the partition table.
>
> as far as i can remember i had done this step on the same machine
> successfully for some months ago. and in the bios cannot change
> something like emulation floppy, cdrom or disc. so iam run out of
> ideas.
>
cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda
Use fdisk to make sure sda1 is marked active.
-hpa
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