On 01.10.2009 10:49, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
From that, you do not appear to have a partition table, therefore you
will not have an embedded area at all, and so grub will not install.
I'm sorry to cause confusion like that, but I erased the partition table
(and the MBR for that matter) to show you how the BIOS detects the stick
geometry.
usb sticks can be formatted in two ways.
1) with a partition sector and partitions like a Hard Disk.
(embedded area exists)
2) with no partition sector and no partitions like a Floppy Disk. (no
embedded area exists)
Yes, the layout which was tried looks like the below (1), I did not give
(2) a shot yet, since this would force me to have a disk layout that
seems utterly pointless for this matter (I think).
Disk /dev/usb: 1042 MB, 1042284544 bytes
33 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2013 * 512 = 1030656 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7867a96c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/usb1 * 1 1011 1017541 83 Linux
Sorry again for the confusion.
phcoder might be on to something though, please also see his recent mail
in this thread.
--
Mierswa, Daniel
If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply
know better than you do.
--- Linus Torvalds, comp.os.linux.advocacy, 1996/07/22
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