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...th Linux (MOVIX2). I am using a Kingston Data Traveler 2.0. When syslinux -s /dev/sda is executed I get an error of 'ERROR 3246: Boot sector read failed' yet it seems that something has been written as there is LDLINUX.sys on the drive. Furthermore after reading out the boot sector with mkbt there is no entry of Syslinux - just the default 'remove disks' notice. When I plug the disk in and boot from it (my BIOS does support usb booting) all that happens is that the character 'j' is printed to the screen. It hasn't even got to starting the kernel or even printing...

...n <jn at it.swin.edu.au> This program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for details 3,971,014,656 3787+1 records in 3787+1 records out ********************************************** Then I tried to install the bootsect.bin bit ********************************************** C:\installs\mkbt>mkbt -x d: bootsect.bin * Expert mode (-x) Size=0bytes OEM="" VolLabel="" FileSys="" ********************************************** I then booted to it, but it didn't work! Any suggestions?

Hello all, I've been following this project with interest, and have had great fun implementing Isolinux within the FreeDOS cdrom distribution. Since I'm not that an expert at Linux, I would like to know how I can *succesfully* generate a bootable image from a partition. Situation is like this: (640MB RAM on system) 60GB IDE harddisk, primary partition 1 win98 500MB extended partition