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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simon Waters wrote: > trewornan wrote: >> I can't explain this: before I loaded the KingMax up via Unetbootin I >> set it up as a single FAT32 partition and marked it bootable same as >> with the Kingston. The only odd thing I can find is that the KingMax >> although it says 4GB actually the partition (which as far as I can >> see covers the entire memory) says 3.8GB. Is it possible there's some >> peculiar proprietary partitioning that isn't apparent under normal >> usage. > > Possible but just list the partitions and look "fdisk -l /dev/sdX" or > "parted /dev/sdX". > > I've fought similar today, USB flash devices can be difficult to boot. > > I think the most likely cause if partition is correct is problems with > the master boot record, just blat it "aptitude install mbr" "install-mbr > /dev/sdX", then use parted or other partition tool to ensure the FAT32 > partition is correctly flagged as bootable. > > In my case the separate partitioning was too painful to fiddle with, I > went with sticking the Debian bootable image over the whole device "zcat > boot.img.gz >/dev/sdX" which worked nicely for Debian. > I think there is some sort of partition on the san disk flash drives, not sure i think mine had some sort of file manager on it, I tried to delete it. could also explain why trying to mount such devices is harder, as you expect it to be /dev/sda1 or whatever and it ends up something other than what you would expect. Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpJzhAACgkQaggq1k2FJq1TpwCePwffLgENbo7nz/Urq5e3qqDQ VS8Ani4JYPUCN0Q6MKfN6VD/amwf3njd =JMJt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html