On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Ira Abramov 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).
I had similar issues which turned out to be a corrupt partition table:
Some mismatch between the linear and 3d values in the partition table
resulted in the BIOS not managing to boot from the USB flash device. I
first found that this is the problem by taking a smaller flash device
that did boot and copied it (with dd) to the non-working device, which
made it work. After that all it took is some games with fdisk to get
the bigger device to work even when partitioned to full capacity.
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