[Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Aug 29 18:18:00 UTC 2009


Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> El Sat, 29-08-2009 a las 10:25 -0400, Luke Faraone escribió:
> 
> 
>> Well, the USB format idea was left unimplemented as we (I) couldn't
>> get it working, but we should probably take a look at makebootfat to
>> achieve the same goals.
> 
> Or just use parted instead of fdisk to wipe the MBR and create it from
> scratch.  It does the right thing on the USB sticks I tried.
> 

Note that the Syslinux tool "mkdiskimage" can be used to create disk 
images (or disk) with arbitrary geometry.

	-hpa




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