From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MtLLV-00068C-Du for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:05:21 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MtLLT-00066q-MJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:05:19 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MtLLR-00064s-Et for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:05:18 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33954 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MtLLQ-00064Y-Rs for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:05:16 -0400 Received: from eta-ori.net ([91.121.142.51]:42111 helo=orion.eta-ori.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MtLLQ-0001y0-JJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:05:16 -0400 Received: from [10.0.0.151] (p4FEDF5E0.dip.t-dialin.net [79.237.245.224]) by orion.eta-ori.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1607A60CCE5 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:05:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4AC4A8FF.1000607@impulze.org> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:05:03 +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> <4AC3AD3B.5020007@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: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:05:20 -0000 On 01.10.2009 10:49, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > From that, you do not appear to have a partition table, therefore you > will not have an embedded area at all, and so grub will not install. I'm sorry to cause confusion like that, but I erased the partition table (and the MBR for that matter) to show you how the BIOS detects the stick geometry. > usb sticks can be formatted in two ways. > 1) with a partition sector and partitions like a Hard Disk. > (embedded area exists) > 2) with no partition sector and no partitions like a Floppy Disk. (no > embedded area exists) Yes, the layout which was tried looks like the below (1), I did not give (2) a shot yet, since this would force me to have a disk layout that seems utterly pointless for this matter (I think). Disk /dev/usb: 1042 MB, 1042284544 bytes 33 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1011 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2013 * 512 = 1030656 bytes Disk identifier: 0x7867a96c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/usb1 * 1 1011 1017541 83 Linux Sorry again for the confusion. phcoder might be on to something though, please also see his recent mail in this thread. -- 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