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

[Dean Graff]

Could i get an example to make a binary hard disk image with `mkdiskimage',
populate it and install syslinux please? Preferably with a single FAT
partition.




On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Rich Mahn <rich at lat.com> wrote:

>
> > > Both sticks show very unusual factors for heads and sectors
> > > which are hardly intentional. If BIOS gets confused like fdisk,
> > > then the failure to find files is quite plausible.
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Could you please exercise what is described for Linux in
> > >   http://www.syslinux.org/doc/usbkey.txt
> > > and check whether
> > >   mkdiskimage -4 /dev/sda 0 64 32
> > > prepares a problematic stick for a normal installation of
> > > Clonezilla, which then boots ?
> > >
> >
> > I have to disagree., at least at this point.
> >
>
> I have to disagree with the disagree, at least so some extent.  I find
> mkdiskimage to be an extremely useful and compact tool to do what
> otherwise takes several potentially more error-prone steps.
>
> I actually use different parameters:
>         mkdiskimage -4 -z -F /dev/sdX
> which is the same thing as above except using FAT32 instead of FAT16.
>
> This has worked flawlessly with various USB thumb drives from 256 MiB to
> 32 GiB in size on PCs with dozens of different motherboards from about a
> half-dozen different vendors.  (Actually the PCs only have one MB
> each--it's the aggregation that has the dozens of MBs).
>
> On the larger sticks I carry several versions of a number of
> distributions--Clonezilla, AVG, GParted, Parted Magic, System Rescue CD,
> Fedora, Centos, and several other diagnostic tools.  This gives me most
> of the tools I might need, all on one or two USB sticks.
>
> Adapting these distributions to this type of USB stick has become almost
> trivial with Syslinux 6.02.  If it is of interest, I'll be glad to
> provide details and step-by-step instructions.  Perhaps this type of
> information could be useful somewhere in the wiki.  I'm not much of a
> writer, but I'm good at step-by-step instructions.
>
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