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

Thomas Schmitt scdbackup at gmx.net
Wed Jan 22 10:36:00 PST 2014


Hi,

Rich Mahn wrote:
>  mkdiskimage -4 -z -F /dev/sdX

Added to my emerging article. Thanks.


> This has worked flawlessly with various USB thumb drives from 256 MiB to
> 32 GiB

Cylinder size 64x32 is fully consistent only up to 1 GiB.
What start LBA, block count, end CHS do you get with larger ones ?


> Perhaps this type of information could be useful somewhere in the wiki.

Here ! (Jumping up and down)
  http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/User:Scdbackup#New_Common_Problems_Bad_Heritage_on_MS_DOS_disk


Have a nice day :)

Thomas



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