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Only to inform that I've just released the version 1.2 of makebootfat. makebootfat is a GPL command line utility able to create bootable USB disks for Linux and Windows using the FAT filesystem and syslinux. As far I know it's the most advanced tool available able to make bootable USB disks. It's able to autodetect/partition/format/populate the USB disk in...

...be is an off topic, but I don't have many friends that deal with this kind of stuffs. Everything is fine, I use the media just to load a kernel and an initrd with some drivers to boot from network (I have a lot of boot ROMS and their sucks) I tested on a lot of PCs using the Andrea Mazzoleni makebootfat script with syslinux 3.10. with no problems just one old PC I noticed that green led on the reader turns off, on every BIOS cappable to boot from USB it stay on. I want to buy a USB Pen drive, or another Card, like MS SD CF or what is better, to play with? I want to play with more than 8MB ;)...

...t sector, right? But, in Windows XP it is not normally possible for syslinux.exe to even see anything but the first partition on a thumb drive. Moreover, syslinux.exe would overwrite my MBR. And is it even capable of writing a VBR to a logical partition anyway? I know there's a tool called makebootfat, but it isn't clear to me that it can be made to leave my MBR alone either and I don't think I can point it at my logical partition either. So, is there a way to produce and install the correctly patched ldlinux.bss and ldlinux.sys files appropriate to the destination logical partition...