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Hi, I've got a couple of questions, I'm trying to get syslinux 2.10 to work on my Apacer Handy Steno TN202 128MB flash drive, I'm getting... root at will # syslinux /dev/sdb1 Total number of sectors not a multiple of sectors per track! Add mtools_skip_check=1 to your .mtoolsrc file to skip this test ...but if I try the same command on a mandrake box the syslinux command is successful. The syslinux version on my Mandrake 10 box is 1.76. Has anyone come across this problem? is this a known problem? Is this a problem with my Flash drive? what files...

...teps I took: a. mkdosfs /dev/sdc1 b. mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/stick c. cp rhas3u2/isolinux/* /mnt/stick where rhas3u2 is the RHES AS 3 update2 CD mount point d. cp /mnt/stick/isolinux.cfg /mnt/stick/syslinux.cfg e. cp /rhas3u2/images/pxeboot/initrd.img /mnt/stick/ f. umount /mnt/stick g. echo "mtools_skip_check=1" >> /root/.mtoolsrc h. syslinux /dev/sdc1 When I took this memory stick to another PC, I can see the hard disk device (OTi6828) at the BIOS level - Boot option. But after selected this in the boot option, save and reboot, the system reports: PXE-E61: media Test failure check cable...

...EAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 4 fcntl(4, F_GETFL) = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f5949c3c000 lseek(4, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0 write(4, "MTOOLS_SKIP_CHECK=1\nMTOOLS_FAT_C"..., 92) = 92 close(4) = 0 munmap(0x7f5949c3c000, 4096) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f5949688e50}, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x7f5949688e50}, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8)...