Jeremy Visser wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Jonatan Liljedahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Also tried with another stick of different brand, same thing. It just >> gives me a black screen, syslinux doesn't load. > > Are you sure there's an MBR on the drive? > > syslinux comes with an MBR you can use. On Ubuntu, it's located in > /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin. > > cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdX > > (NOT sdx1, just sdx) > > ...which will install the MBR onto your drive. Also, make sure your > partition is flagged with 'boot', but looks like you've already done > that. > > If the MBR is working, you should get the three letters "MBR" printed > on your screen briefly when it starts booting off the flash drive.
Ok, then there's probably no MBR. I used the syslinux that came with gobo's liveCD and there's no mbr.bin included. I assumed that syslinux wrote the MBR automatically. (But I ran syslinux on the partition, not the whole blockdevice) -- /Jonatan [ http://kymatica.com ] _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
