Hi, I've seen that a few others have had this error message, but saw no "resolved" discussions about it so I'm still trying to get Syslinux to work. I followed the directions (twice) at en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD#Creating_a_bootable_USB_Stick_versio n_of_mini.iso_entirely_from_Windows I also tried WinImage (not only 7-zip) & had the same troubles, so the troubles seem to be related to syslinux not 7-zip. I also tried a Mandriva IMG file instead of SuSE's ISO, got the same error. I get the "read sector error" after entering "syslinux -ma e:". I checked the Syslinux incompatible-hardware-list, etc., and am coming up blank. I also did a "thorough" scandisk to make sure it wasn't telling me there's some physical error on the boot sector or somesuch :-) but the drive is perfect. Any ideas? (I'm not sure what the "boot sector error" even means.) Or is there perhaps an alternative to syslinux so that I can test whether this is even a problem specific to Syslinux? Thanks for your time to read this.
Krista0B wrote:> > I get the "read sector error" after entering "syslinux -ma e:". I checked > the Syslinux incompatible-hardware-list, etc., and am coming up blank. I > also did a "thorough" scandisk to make sure it wasn't telling me there's > some physical error on the boot sector or somesuch :-) but the drive is > perfect. >This means that Syslinux requested reading your USB disk, but got an error back from Windows. Without more information, that's all I can tell you at this point. There are some USB sticks which have "magic" MBRs, and some others which have 1024-byte sectors; both are rare but existent. Either way, please give as much information as you can (versions of Windows, what *exact* steps you took from the beginning, etc.) and we might be able to figure something out. -hpa