[syslinux] Trouble with Superfloppy format

Sven Geggus lists at fuchsschwanzdomain.de
Wed Nov 17 07:18:09 PST 2010


Shao Miller <Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca> wrote:

> My guess would be that your BIOS drives your USB storage device as an 
> HDD, rather than as a superfloppy. 

The one which does not work. Sounds reasonable as it works fine on another
Machine.

> Perhaps your BIOS has an option to choose the emulation type.

Well I can choose USB HDD or USB FDD, neither one works.

> What filesystem is on your USB storage device and how did you put that 
> filesystem on it?

(V)FAT using mkdosfs.

Sven

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