[syslinux] [Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 08/30/2009 04:41 AM, Luke Faraone wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:25, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk
> <mailto:dr at jones.dk>> wrote:
> 
>     makebootfat not only formats with disk geometry that *is* right, but
>     also use a handcrafted MBR which has a higher chance of *looking*
>     right by various BIOSes - both when looking for USB-FDD, USB-ZIP and
>     USB-HDD.
> 
> Now, by *right*, do we mean not only that but also something that meets
> the criteria of
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device#How_to_win (without
> the problems caused by
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device#Screwed-up_formatting)?
> 
> 
> I'm not too familiar with how USB flash works, so I don't know if
> USB-{FDD, ZIP, HDD} layouts are compatible with the layout you'd want to
> minimize wear.
> 

Wear leveling needs to be done in a separate layer if you're doing to
use a conventional filesystem.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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