thanks for that What I'm wondering is if it's possible to tell if a USB stick even has a boot sector.
I spent many frustrating hours last month trying to create a bootable stick; none of them ever had the remotest chance of booting on anything as I later found out :-( Sean On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Martin Dengler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 06:08:45PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: >> As far as I know we don't have a method yet for testing if a newly >> loaded stick on a computer will be potentially bootable or not on >> another :-( > > You've said this a few times, and I just want to point out one reason > why we don't have it yet is that it's an intractable problem. It > can't be done perfectly. It can't even be feasibly done by a large, > dedicated organisation willing to pay lots of money to do this. > That's why large organisations solve this problem by limiting the > hardware they "support", and testing just on that (etc. etc. of course > we all know this). > > Of course we can improve the situation by telling "upstream" what > hardware doesn't work. I think that's what we're trying to do here. > >> Sean > > Martin > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
