On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> wrote: > trying to tease out what all the different failure mechanisms are
One failure mode I know of: Most USB sticks come pre-formatted from factory in a funny "FAT-16 LBA" partition mode and fs format. If you remove the partition and recreated it, most tools (and users!) will default to FAT-32 for new FAT partitions. And oftentimes BIOSes can't handle booting from FAT-32. I've spotted this on my (earlyish) EEE 701 and I think OFW also has (had?) this limitation. So if you have a non-booting disk, it's worthwhile asking fdisk about the partition mode, and check what the file utility says about the contents of the block device (in the partition). cheers, martin -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
