Syslinux - Mar 2008 - Problems to get booting Flashkey

Hello List,

iam following to this howto:
http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick
but when iam try the command:
# syslinux /dev/sda1
it writes only into the FAT partition the files they need, but mbr still
is empty after. iam do this:
# dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/mbr.dd bs=512 count=1
and open it with ghex2 in my case and see only the partition table.

as far as i can remember i had done this step on the same machine
successfully for some months ago. and in the bios  cannot change
something like emulation floppy, cdrom or disc. so iam run out of
ideas. 

probably someone can please help me? many thanks in advance.
--Daniel
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Op 16-03-2008 om 01:59 schreef Daniel Rindt:
> Hello List,
> 
> iam following to this howto:
>
http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick
> but when iam try the command:
> # syslinux /dev/sda1
                    a1
> it writes only into the FAT partition the files they need, but mbr still
> is empty after. iam do this:
> # dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/mbr.dd bs=512 count=1
            just a
> and open it with ghex2 in my case and see only the partition table.
> 
> as far as i can remember i had done this step on the same machine
> successfully for some months ago. and in the bios  cannot change
> something like emulation floppy, cdrom or disc. so iam run out of
> ideas. 
What I see is that two _different_ devices are used.

I would check if /dev/sda1 is marked as bootable and boot.
If it failed, I would use the complete USB stick as ONE partition
and run all actions on /dev/sda
> probably someone can please help me? many thanks in advance.
> --Daniel
I hope it helped. ( I don't have hardware that can boot from USB.  )

With E-mail I trying to find out if PGP/MIME (RFC2015) messages go
through the mailinglist ( there was a time they were dropped by the
mailinglistsoftware(version) of this ML )


Cheers
Geert Stappers

Daniel Rindt wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> iam following to this howto:
>
http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick
> but when iam try the command:
> # syslinux /dev/sda1
> it writes only into the FAT partition the files they need, but mbr still
> is empty after. iam do this:
> # dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/mbr.dd bs=512 count=1
> and open it with ghex2 in my case and see only the partition table.
> 
> as far as i can remember i had done this step on the same machine
> successfully for some months ago. and in the bios  cannot change
> something like emulation floppy, cdrom or disc. so iam run out of
> ideas. 
> 
cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda

Use fdisk to make sure sda1 is marked active.

	-hpa

Op 16-03-2008 om 09:27 schreef Geert Stappers:
> 
> With E-mail I trying to find out if PGP/MIME (RFC2015) messages go
> through the mailinglist ( there was a time they were dropped by the
> mailinglistsoftware(version) of this ML )
Retry...
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