[syslinux] Syslinux on USB not seeing any files

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Nov 7 10:01:23 PST 2008


Jernej Simončič wrote:
>> What BIOS vendor?
> 
> Award.

Figures.  Bloody hell.

I tried both, and the results were the same (the pendrive is formatted
with zipdrive geometry).

Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 15655 cylinders

Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl     Start      Size ID
 1 00   0   0    0   0   0    0          0          0 00
 2 00   0   0    0   0   0    0          0          0 00
 3 00   0   0    0   0   0    0          0          0 00
 4 80   1   1    0  63  32 1023         32   32061408 0c

This disk is too large to be booted with CBIOS with zipdisk geometry.
You probably have to make a boot partition which is no larger than 1 GB.

	-hpa




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