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 > > > -- > My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ > My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main > -- Dr Paul van den Bergen
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