Hi,
On some boards, like the AsRock K7S41GX, Grub fails to boot from
superfloppy fat32 formated usb sticks.
The reason for the boot failure is that the bios of the mentioned
board replaces byte 0x24 of the bpb with the value 0x00 when it's read
through the bios function.
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On 09/22/2010 05:45 PM, Thomas Frauendorfer | Miray Software wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On some boards, like the AsRock K7S41GX, Grub fails to boot from
> superfloppy fat32 formated usb sticks.
>
This config isn't recommended in first place. You should really create
partitions on the USB disk and leave some
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Lennart Sorensen
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:52:46PM +0200, Thomas Frauendorfer wrote:
>> Well, I think I didn't state the problem clearly enough:
>> The bios doesn't write to the disk, it just changes the value on the
>> fly when the bootloader is reading
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:52:46PM +0200, Thomas Frauendorfer wrote:
> Well, I think I didn't state the problem clearly enough:
> The bios doesn't write to the disk, it just changes the value on the
> fly when the bootloader is reading the bpb through a bios method.
> The workaroud also doesn't cha
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Lennart Sorensen
wrote:
> Wouldn't that be a bug in the BIOS? Don't go writing to a drive you
> don't know what contains. It could be something other tahn fat16 after
> all (what if it was a linux kernel with a bootheader on it and not a
> filesystem at all?)
>
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 05:45:34PM +0200, Thomas Frauendorfer | Miray Software
wrote:
> On some boards, like the AsRock K7S41GX, Grub fails to boot from
> superfloppy fat32 formated usb sticks.
>
> The reason for the boot failure is that the bios of the mentioned
> board replaces byte 0x24
Hi,
On some boards, like the AsRock K7S41GX, Grub fails to boot from
superfloppy fat32 formated usb sticks.
The reason for the boot failure is that the bios of the mentioned
board replaces byte 0x24 of the bpb with the value 0x00 when it's read
through the bios function.
In fat16 this byt