From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Mt4aG-0006tA-9O for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:11:28 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mt4aB-0006q5-0H for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:11:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mt4a6-0006nc-Ng for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:11:20 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54702 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mt4a6-0006nV-Gu for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:11:18 -0400 Received: from eta-ori.net ([91.121.142.51]:48620 helo=orion.eta-ori.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mt4a4-0006Nq-Tt for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:11:18 -0400 Received: from [10.0.0.151] (p4FEDF97B.dip.t-dialin.net [79.237.249.123]) by orion.eta-ori.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 196EB60974E for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:11:16 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4AC3AD3B.5020007@impulze.org> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:10:51 +0200 From: Daniel Mierswa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090930 Thunderbird/3.0pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <4AC2B06F.5020302@impulze.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Faulty BIOS or GRUB issue (USB Stick won't boot) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:11:24 -0000 On 30.09.2009 10:26, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Can you do a > fdisk -u -l /dev/sdb But of course. Disk /dev/usb1: 1041 MB, 1041961984 bytes 33 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1010 cylinders, total 2035082 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > If the first partition of the usb stick starts at sector less than 63, > grub has probably not been installed due to lack of embedded area. Yes I've seen that by searching the web. If that's the case grub-install would complain that it cannot embed core.img into the header, wouldn't it? Either way I've checked the size of core.img: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23784 2009-09-30 20:59 /mnt/root/boot/grub/core.img So it would require ~50 Sectors, since the partition starts at sector 62 it _should_ work, no? I think i can remember setting a different sectors/track (above 63) back in the days but it didn't change any behaviour on boot. -- Mierswa, Daniel If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do. --- Linus Torvalds, comp.os.linux.advocacy, 1996/07/22