On 09/22/2010 05:45 PM, Thomas Frauendorfer | Miray Software wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On some boards, like the AsRock K7S41GX, Grub fails to boot from
> superfloppy fat32 formated usb sticks.
>
This config isn't recommended in first place. You should really create
partitions on the USB disk and leave some
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Lennart Sorensen
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:52:46PM +0200, Thomas Frauendorfer wrote:
>> Well, I think I didn't state the problem clearly enough:
>> The bios doesn't write to the disk, it just changes the value on the
>> fly when the bootloader is reading
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:52:46PM +0200, Thomas Frauendorfer wrote:
> Well, I think I didn't state the problem clearly enough:
> The bios doesn't write to the disk, it just changes the value on the
> fly when the bootloader is reading the bpb through a bios method.
> The workaroud also doesn't cha
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Lennart Sorensen
wrote:
> Wouldn't that be a bug in the BIOS? Don't go writing to a drive you
> don't know what contains. It could be something other tahn fat16 after
> all (what if it was a linux kernel with a bootheader on it and not a
> filesystem at all?)
>
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 05:45:34PM +0200, Thomas Frauendorfer | Miray Software
wrote:
> On some boards, like the AsRock K7S41GX, Grub fails to boot from
> superfloppy fat32 formated usb sticks.
>
> The reason for the boot failure is that the bios of the mentioned
> board replaces byte 0x24
