Re: Faulty BIOS or GRUB issue (USB Stick won't boot)

[Daniel Mierswa <impulze@impulze.org>]

On 01.10.2009 10:49, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>  From that, you do not appear to have a partition table, therefore you
> will not have an embedded area at all, and so grub will not install.
I'm sorry to cause confusion like that, but I erased the partition table 
(and the MBR for that matter) to show you how the BIOS detects the stick 
geometry.

> usb sticks can be formatted in two ways.
> 1) with a partition sector and partitions like a Hard Disk.
> (embedded area exists)
> 2) with no partition sector and no partitions like a Floppy Disk. (no
> embedded area exists)
Yes, the layout which was tried looks like the below (1), I did not give 
(2) a shot yet, since this would force me to have a disk layout that 
seems utterly pointless for this matter (I think).

Disk /dev/usb: 1042 MB, 1042284544 bytes
33 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2013 * 512 = 1030656 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7867a96c

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/usb1   *           1        1011     1017541   83  Linux

Sorry again for the confusion.
phcoder might be on to something though, please also see his recent mail 
in this thread.

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Mierswa, Daniel

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