[syslinux] USB boot problems on Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

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Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette
><rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>> In message <BLU0-SMTP145A44932CB6CC2DB4621568BB30 at phx.gbl>,
>> Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>I don't know why syslinux.cfg would be correctly found in the same
>>>USB drive when plugged in to other systems but not in this one.
>>
>> Well, ya know, that makes two of us.
>
>LBA or other geometry-related aspects.
>
>1) Could you post the results of 'fdisk -l -c=dos -u=cylinders
>/dev/sda' and 'fdisk -l -u=sectors /dev/sda'

Huh?

I get the feeling that you are making the assumption that I have some
flavor of Linux all set up and ready to run on this specific box (i.e.
the one containg the Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G motherboard).

I don't, actually.

But I may have, in future.  Would that help in some way?

Also, on the off chance that I might be in a position to fulfull your
request for the above specific info sometime in the near future, could
you please elaborate and let me know if, by "/dev/sda" in the above,
you intentionally were intendeding to obtain information about the
primary (sATA) hard drive in the system, and *not* about any USB-attached
device(s)?  (Sorry, but I am puzzled about why info on the main hard drive
geometry would be of any help here.)

>2) You cut the critical three-four letter sequence indicating boot type.

Please elaborate and I will try to get you that information.  What
critical three-four letter sequence was that, exactly?

>3) About 3-4 years ago, I decided I'd use my 1G sticks for light
>writing and primarily for booting old systems since I anticipated
>their disappearance and saw the growing incompatibility of large stick
>and old PCs.

I can only envy you at this point, since I am essentially trying to do
likewise... so far to no avail, at least with my GA-M55Plus-S3G. :-(


Regards,
rfg