[syslinux] Trouble with Superfloppy format

[Gilles Espinasse]

Selon Sven Geggus <lists at fuchsschwanzdomain.de>:

> Hello,
>
> are there known issues with some bioses not booting from Superfloppy format?
>
Yes there is (was?)
Depend on the bios brand, sometime on the bios version.
That should happen mostly for the first bioses that supported usb boot (on amd
XP or Pentium IV era), not for recent motherboard.

What is your motherboard/CPU, bios brand?

>
You usually don't need to partition the device you want to boot directly.
A script has created an image that you download. You copy that image to the
device with dd or more user-friendly interface.

Depending how the image has been created, without partition or with one or more,
the device may appear to the bios as a floppy (FDD), a hard disk (HDD), or ZIP
device. It should be wise to select from bios menu the same flavor the image was
created.

Gilles