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2017 Apr 15
1
FW: boot fails on some system
...rtitioning when doing this ("bs=440 count=1").
Can you make it boot then?
If so you can compare the mbrs to see what's different if you want.
For the partitioning:
If not try partition the USB stick/disk with another partition
tool. My experiences with gparted have been bad. With sfidks and fdisk
acceptable (to add to the confusion, there were two different fdisks
in Debian: one from util-linux and one from gnu-fdisk; gnu-fdisk seems
to have disappeared in jessie).
Do zero out the partition table first so you don't "inherit" any
badness ("dd if=/dev/zero of=/de...
2017 Apr 13
3
boot fails on some system
I used syslinux to make an external usb hard drive booting up "system rescue cd" from a FAT primary partition.
The procedure I followed was setting on the boot flag on the FAT partition and copying the content of the iso image to it and renaming isolinux to syslinux wherever needed. I then unmounted the device and ran "syslinux -d /syslinux/ -i /dev/sdxn" where sdxn is the