* Elimar Riesebieter [Mon Feb 04, 2019 at 10:32:49AM +0100]:

> root@pippin>pts/0 ~ # mkfs.vfat -F 16 -v /dev/sdf2
> mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)
> /dev/sdf2 has 64 heads and 32 sectors per track,
> hidden sectors 0x3800800;
> logical sector size is 512,
> using 0xf8 media descriptor, with 2097152 sectors;
> drive number 0x80;
> filesystem has 2 16-bit FATs and 32 sectors per cluster.
> FAT size is 256 sectors, and provides 65518 clusters.
> There are 32 reserved sectors.
> Root directory contains 512 slots and uses 32 sectors.
> Volume ID is 5c940374, no volume label.

> root@pippin>pts/0 ~ # grml2usb --bootoptions=%lang=de 
> --bootoptions=%persistence grml64-full_2018.12.iso /dev/sdf2
> Executing grml2usb version 0.16.2
> Execution failed: Partition /dev/sdf2 does not contain a FAT16 filesystem. 
> (Use --fat16 or run mkfs.vfat /dev/sdf2)

> /dev/sdf2 is a partition on a stick. I tried both gpt and msdos
> partitiontables, though.

Can you please provide the output of:

  blkid -s TYPE -o value /dev/sdf2

? This should output "vfat", if not then you'll get the error
message you're quoting.

I assume you're using mkfs.vfat from dosfstools 4.1-2 (your output
looks similar to what I get on current buster)?

regards,
-mika-

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