On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 14:48, Gyorgy Jeney <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 November 2010 22:46, Ferenc Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: >> "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> For a regression... I really need it narrowed down... 3.71 to 4.02 is a >>> huge change. >> >> That's of course true. György, are you willing to test some >> intermediate syslinux versions on this machine? > > I checked out the git version of syslinux and tried to do a bisection, > but there where so many un-testable points (uncompilable, fails due to > something else) between syslinux-3.86 (last known working) and > syslinux-4.00 (first known non-working) that I gave up on the > bisection. > > 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. -- -Gene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
