On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Jkhatri <khatri.ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all, > > Anyone can light on this, > > I'm installing Linux on my usb 16GB stick , but I'm wondering why only vfat > partition is needed to install the Linux on usb stick , why we can't use > extX type of FS to install the Linux???? is it necessary to have vfat > partition to install Linux instead of its native FS... ? is there any > solution for this ? > > I came to know that , SYSLINUX uses vfat .... thats why it is required ... > but the same thing never happened in case of HDD ... I never formated my hdd > with vft to install Linux, it boots from extX type of partition ... then why > we need to format usb stick with vfat ???? > Grub does not need FAT, so using grub should solve this. Just tried Unetbootin Tinycore to a Ext2 formated USB. Failed to boot. Didn't investigate. HDD doesn't use syslinux, it uses grub, grub2 or lilo in most cases. Regards Narendra Diwate
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