[syslinux] Segmentation fault in 3.63 on 16GB USB

[A]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:53 +0200, Dyks, Axel (XL) wrote:
> A wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 14:45 +0200, Dyks, Axel (XL) wrote:
> >> A wrote:
> >>> Disk /dev/sdb: 16.3 GB, 16357785600 bytes
> >>> 20 heads, 51 sectors/track, 31322 cylinders
> >>> Units = cylinders of 1020 * 512 = 522240 bytes
> >>> Disk identifier: 0x000cd158
> >>>
> >>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> >>> /dev/sdb1   *           9       31323    15970304    b  W95 FAT32
> >>>
> >> FAT32 filesystem
> > 
> > Do you mean that syslinux can't handle FAT32?
> > Or something else?
> > 
> > Yes I did notice one was FAT16 and the other FAT32.
> > 
> It has just been a guess that the problem does not occurs due to different
> hardware and/or size, but due to the different FS. Syslinux should
> also run on/from FAT32 ...
> 
> But -- while hpa examines the first 10 sectors of your FS -- you
> could try to create a small FAT16 partition on your 16GB stick
> and try to install syslinux into this partition.

No - definitely not a hardware problem.

But it seems you were right ... if you read my last post on the
subject.
Either that or the format of the FAT32 is faulty from the factory.
But it works fine reading/writing when it's mounted.
But syslinux is coming up with an incorrect number in libfat/open.c
so it has to be one or the other :P
Although I've written a bunch of tools for dealing with and searching
ext2, I've never even looked at the FAT16/32 layout so I have no idea
about what the error is (other than my guess I made before)

Actually, 'hpa', I emailed the two files to you directly a week ago
and didn't get an error back, so I presume you did get them?
(i.e. you don't block that email address from non list posts?)
If you didn't get them, here they are again:
... and as I said in the direct post:
"Just in case it's useful, I've included from the beginning of the
device also (since the files are so small)"
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