On 06/02/09 07:10, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> On 06/02/09 03:43, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> Bernie Innocenti wrote: >>>> Disk /dev/sdb: 2055 MB, 2055208960 bytes >>>> 221 heads, 2 sectors/track, 9081 cylinders >>> I don't know where fdisk, the Linux kernel, or whatever come up with >>> these kinds of geometries. They're almost universally non-bootable. >> >> Ok, I wiped mbr and made fdisk create a new one: >> >> Disk /dev/sdb: 2055 MB, 2055208960 bytes >> 64 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1011 cylinders > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Equally weird. The only "standard" ones are 64 heads, 32 sectors and > 255 heads, 63 sectors. Indeed, repartitioning the USB stick with 32 sectors and 255 heads fixed boot for a previously unbootable computer. Thanks, Peter. I think we should document this tip in the Sugar on a Stick wiki page and perhaps change the Fedora livecd-iso-to-disk script to create the MBR with parted rather than fdisk. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
