It may be looking for the fat16 UEFI boot sector and not finding it on the
linux disk



On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 20:16, Russell Coker via luv-main <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Friday, 2 October 2020 4:11:24 PM AEST Andrew Pam via luv-main wrote:
> > On 2/10/20 3:55 pm, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> > > Any ideas as to why a system might want to boot FreeDOS but not GRUB?
> >
> > Check the BIOS settings - USB booting can emulate a floppy disk, a
> > CD-ROM, an LS120 SuperDisk or a native USB mass storage device.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, the HP BIOS settings are awkward in regard to
> floppy/cd/hard drive which makes me lack confidence in them doing the
> right
> thing.
>
> Here is the Linux boot device I'm trying to use:
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 3.8 GiB, 4026531840 bytes, 7864320 sectors
> Disk model: Flash Disk
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disklabel type: dos
> Disk identifier: 0x00fe7504
>
> Device     Boot Start     End Sectors Size Id Type
> /dev/sdb1        2048 6293503 6291456   3G 83 Linux
>
> Here is the FreeDOS boot device.  They both seem to be configured as hard
> drives.
>
> Disk /dev/sdc: 7.5 GiB, 8054112256 bytes, 15730688 sectors
> Disk model: USB Disk
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disklabel type: dos
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>
> Device     Boot Start    End Sectors  Size Id Type
> /dev/sdc1  *       63  63377   63315 30.9M  4 FAT16 <32M
> /dev/sdc2       63488 129023   65536   32M  4 FAT16 <32M
>
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