On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 18:29 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Will Woods schrieb:
> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 11:41 -0400, Ray Strode wrote:
>> You might have to run fdisk on the device and make the partition
>> bootable.
> I used gparted, and it said the partition was marked bootable. fdisk
> confirmed that, but it said the partition boundaries were odd. So I
> repartitioned with fdisk, and now I get: "Boot error"
>
> Which is, at least, a different failure message.
>
> Maybe I just have a sketchy key.
Do you have a proper MBR on the stick that jumps to the bootsector of
the active partition (that where syslinux is installed as far as I can
see from this discussion)?
It did. I think this a sketchy BIOS. Will was going to try a BIOS
update now.
FWIW, a good way to check if the USB key is bootable is to install qemu
adn then run:
qemu -hda /path/to/usb/stick -m 256 -std-vga
If that comes up to the boot screen, then the stick _should_ be bootable
modulo BIOS problems. It's a nice, quick and easy way to ensure some
basic sanity
Jeremy