El Sat, 29-08-2009 a las 15:17 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard escribió: > BTW, are all these details about USB booting being collected somewhere > on a wiki page? it would be great if someone could expand this paragraph: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Soas#Boot This page is not even linked from it: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/USB_format A few months ago, I got this useful piece of information which makes a lot of previously unbootable machines work: --------- Mensaje reenviado -------- De: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Para: Bernie Innocenti <bernie@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: syslinux@xxxxxxxxx, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>, Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx>, Sugar Devel <sugar-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Asunto: Re: Unbootable machine Fecha: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:10:37 -0700 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. -hpa -- // 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
