Hello,
I have a 2GB USB disk on key on /dev/sdb1.
I had created on it one partition (FAT16).
This partition holds all cylinders of the USB disk.
I want to create a bootable Linux USB disk.
For this, I tried:
syslinux -s /dev/sdb1
An than I ran:
fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 2048 MB, 2048729600 bytes
64 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1008 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3968 * 512 = 2031616 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1008 1999841 6 FAT16
I expected that fdisk will show '*', meaning that it is a bootable partition.
But as you can see, fdisk shows there is no "*" in /dev/sdb1.
My question is: shouldn't syslinux /dev/sdb1 create a bootable partition ?
Should I use fdisk for it ? (like the "a" command of fdisk,
toggle a bootable flag)
Regards,
Ian
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I have a 2GB USB disk on key on /dev/sdb1.
I had created on it one partition (FAT16).
This partition holds all cylinders of the USB disk.
I want to create a bootable Linux USB disk.
For this, I tried:
syslinux -s /dev/sdb1
An than I ran:
fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 2048 MB, 2048729600 bytes
64 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1008 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3968 * 512 = 2031616 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1008 1999841 6 FAT16
I expected that fdisk will show '*', meaning that it is a bootable partition.
But as you can see, fdisk shows there is no "*" in /dev/sdb1.
My question is: shouldn't syslinux /dev/sdb1 create a bootable partition ?
Should I use fdisk for it ? (like the "a" command of fdisk,
toggle a bootable flag)
Regards,
Ian
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