On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:04 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > 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 >
I'm using fat32 with no issues here on a 2gb flash drive... sudo /lib/udev/vol_id /dev/sdc1 ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem ID_FS_TYPE=vfat ID_FS_VERSION=FAT32 ID_FS_UUID=48B9-6D23 ID_FS_UUID_ENC=48B9-6D23 ID_FS_LABEL=XSRepo ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=XSRepo ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=XSRepo sudo fdisk /dev/sdc Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdc: 2021 MB, 2021654528 bytes 63 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1010 cylinders Units = cylinders of 3906 * 512 = 1999872 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0007ec58 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 1 1010 1972499 b W95 FAT32 Jerry _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel