[syslinux] Unbootable machine

[Helmut Hullen]

Hallo, Gilles,

Du meintest am 02.06.09:

>>>> Equally weird.  The only "standard" ones are 64 heads, 32 sectors
>>>> and 255 heads, 63 sectors.

>>> Shouldn't fdisk guess these values automagically?
>>> And, more importantly, who are we going to blame if it doesn't? ;-)

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> Possible to make usb images from sfdisk

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Sometimes (since more than 10 years) I give cfdisk and sfdisk a new try  
- until now always with the same result: these two programs make  
configurations which produce other problems. Returning to fdisk always  
solved these problems.

And when I know the first partition shall be a DOS/Windows partition I  
use the partitioning program from Microsoft (USB sticks: the HP  
routine). For that purpose even the linux fdisk makes sometimes  
problems.

Ok - the next big problem is GPT (GUID partition table) ...

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut