[syslinux] Bug#604245: Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)

[Gyorgy Jeney]

On 23 November 2010 23:52, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 14:48, Gyorgy Jeney <nog.lkml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But then I noticed that I wasn't following the (debian) instructions
>> properly and I was writing the image to /dev/sde, instead of
>> /dev/sde1.  As soon as a partition was created, an appropriate MBR
>> installed, the image in question worked on the Sony.
>>
>> Is such partition-less configurations supported?
>
> Floppies do it all the time but they also make the file system across
> the entire device and not just a partition.
>
> Strange, I would have expected an error from the installer about no file system.

Do you mind my asking, what installer?  The thing that installs
syslinux on the USB key?  I guess that didn't complain because during
testing I did:

mkdosfs -I /dev/sde
./linux/syslinux /dev/sde

I guess that means there was a filesystem there.

nog.