[ltp] Anyone successfully booted from a USB key (T41)

Rob Browning linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 29 Mar 2004 00:16:07 -0600


Joel Ebel <jbebel@ncsu.edu> writes:

> Most keys are already partitioned with one partition as sda1.  I'm
> just using the FAT16 format and umsdos for running linux off of it.
> Check out RUNT if you're curious.

Ahh, ok.  I tried running syslinux on the partition, and it complained
that it only worked with 512-byte sectors.  After I reformatted with
mkdosfs -S 512, it booted.

Thanks
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Rob Browning
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