On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM, David Leeming <leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb> wrote: > Tried with another USB stick - exactly the same result.
Thanks for writing up carefully the steps you followed... I think I spotted the problem... > SET UP BOOTABLE USB STICK > > - insert 2GB USB drive previously formatted with Windows (FAT) > - start Partition editor, delete the existing partition Here is where the problem starts... the USB stick is perfectly good with a FAT partition. Repartitioning and formatting it in ext2 is likely to be the source of the problem. Anyone else reading this: do not repartition the USB stick :-) David: you need to re-partition the usb stick in a funny format. - use fdisk to delete the partition, create a new partition of type "e" (WIN95 16bit LBA), make the partition bootable - use mkfs.vfat with the -F 16 option Once you have done that, you can check that the disk is in good shape and usable trying it on a Windows machine for example. Hope that helps! BTW, where did you see instructions to replace the USB disk partition format? I want to make sure we don't have misleading wiki pages... cheers, , -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
