Hi Ira, Some of what I'll write will sound stupid, but can make some difference between working or not.
The fist important thing is to make sure that syslinux is installed on the whole device, instead of the first partition. The reason is that some BIOS will not like specific partitions on a "removable device" (in this case USB device). The second most important thing is, does your BIOS finds the bootable device on boot menu ? If not, please make sure that the USB device is a storage device on it's own without any special kernel module (that can make a hugh difference). Third, I found out that some Dell BIOSes have a bug reading a USB device at boot, alto they do finds it. Fourth, Please use FAT 16, it's faster and more accurate for USB keys. Last but not least, I tried to take an existed debian business card installation (first of all), to see if that does work (until the need of the ISO image). I hope that a bit helps, Ido On 6/27/06, Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wrote a standard MBR, I have set the /dev/sdx1 active and ran syslinux -s /dev/sdx1, and of course did not forget to leave it a syslinux.cfg on the root of the sdx1. what am I missing? when I boot I just get a blank screen with no prompt (and I have set it to show a page of text). if I press any key at this point it continues to boot from the hard disk rather than the default image I told it to. syslinux is the latest 3.11, the FS is fat32 (a 4 gig Sandisk Cruzer). TIA, Ira. -- Have you seen my fish? Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/
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