[syslinux] syslinux-3.80-1 will not boot from usb drive on Intel 845 motherboard

[H. Peter Anvin]

Chris Lee wrote:
> I tried formating a 1 gig usb flash drive as fat 16 under fedora 9
> using gparted-0.4.3-1.fc9.i386 and syslinux-3.80-1.i386 and and the
> drive will not boot.
> 
> No error message, no nothing from Syslinux.

Did you install an MBR on the disk?

dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/... bs=440 count=1

Also make sure that your FAT16 partition is marked active.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.