[Wylug-help] Disk Images and Partitions

[John Leach]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 02:20 +0100, Dave Fisher wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:20:50PM +0100, John Leach wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> > 
> > What size is the usb stick?
> c. 980MB i.e. sold as 1GB
> 
> > What size did you create the image at before copying to the stick?
> 
> I did several ... roughly 95MB, 250MB and 450MB.

ok, nothing interesting there.

I'm not so sure what is going on, but the syslinux usbkey docs go on
about faulty bioses and stuff and using a special tool to make the image
- not sure if this is the problem you're having (doesn't look like it
tbh, but I've not quite the time to understand those docs fully).  Might
be worth having a read:

on ubuntu: /usr/share/doc/syslinux/README.usbkey

Though I'd recommend building the image directly on the key as a test
though.

Shouldn't perhaps rule out a faulty usb key either, though I'd guess
you'd get read/write errors in the kernel ring buffer (dmesg).

To summarize: "urunuh - try some random stuff"

HTH

John.
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