Hi Rob,
> - cleared any partition information:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=8k count=2
Unnecessary destruction of working MBR...
> - created new partition-table:
> fdisk /dev/sdb
> - created primary partition 1 and marked as bootable
Only had to "marked as bootable"
Tach Eric,
You wrote:
> > I tried the following:
> > - cleared any partition information:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=8k count=2
um, well, it actually *was* necessary, as I had, in earlier attemps, munged
the old partition table :
> That would not have been necessary :-(.
>
Hi Eric,
Here's what I tried:
- fdisk /dev/sdb
-> set partition 1 to FAT12 and bootable
- dd of mbr.bin (from syslinux) to /dev/sdb
dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb
- create FAT12 filesystem on sdb1:
mkdosfs -F 12 /dev/sdb1
- create bootsector using your tool:
./sys-freedos.pl --disk=/dev/sdb
Hi Eric,
You wrote:
> > - fdisk /dev/sdb
> > -> set partition 1 to FAT12 and bootable
> > - dd of mbr.bin (from syslinux) to /dev/sdb
> > dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb
>
> Other way round: FIRST install the syslinux MBR and THEN
> adjust it with fdisk. And please use FAT16 or FAT32.
next try (Pa
At 01:26 AM 2/9/2005 +0100, Robert Urban wrote:
My BIOS seems to be pretty good. The choices are:
[the usual stuff, HDD-0,1,2,3; CDROM; SCSI; LS120; Floppy; etc]
USB-FDD
USB-ZIP
USB-CDROM
USB-HDD
I chose "USB-HDD". I presume all the other USB- choices involve attaching the
actual hardware via USB.
