* Elimar Riesebieter [Mon Feb 25, 2019 at 06:50:37AM +0100]:
> * Michael Prokop <m...@debian.org> [2019-02-20 15:47 +0100]:
> > * Elimar Riesebieter [Mon Feb 04, 2019 at 10:32:49AM +0100]:

> > > root@pippin>pts/0 ~ # mkfs.vfat -F 16 -v /dev/sdf2
[...]
> > > root@pippin>pts/0 ~ # grml2usb --bootoptions=%lang=de 
> > > --bootoptions=%persistence grml64-full_2018.12.iso /dev/sdf2
> > > Executing grml2usb version 0.16.2
> > > Execution failed: Partition /dev/sdf2 does not contain a FAT16 
> > > filesystem. (Use --fat16 or run mkfs.vfat /dev/sdf2)

> > > /dev/sdf2 is a partition on a stick. I tried both gpt and msdos
> > > partitiontables, though.

> > Can you please provide the output of:

> >   blkid -s TYPE -o value /dev/sdf2

> > ? This should output "vfat", if not then you'll get the error
> > message you're quoting.

> The output is vfat. Running grml2usb gives 

> Executing grml2usb version 0.16.3
> Execution failed: Partition /dev/sdf2 does not contain a FAT16 filesystem. 
> (Use --fat16 or run mkfs.vfat /dev/sdf2)
[...]

Could it be, that your python binary (/usr/bin/python) is pointing
to [/usr/bin/]python3?
What's the output of:

  dpkg -S /usr/bin/python

on your system?

(Credits to Evgeni Golov for spotting this py2 vs py3 issue.)

regards,
-mika-

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