Booting from a cheap USB drive...

[Woody Shea]

First, thank you for the reply.

I don't think GParted reads the disk right. It reports that the disk
is 251MiB and, when I try to format, it core-dumps.

I've tried mkfs.vfat, which reports that the drive doesn't support 512
byte sector size, and formats at 2048.

I've also tried Windows command line format, with the same result; it
tells me that 512 is not supported, and it formats at 2048 sector
size.

I tried the USB startup creator, and it reports that it was not able
to properly install the boot loader.

I'm fairly certain that I can't format to 512, so... Can I boot Linux on it?

I've seen a number of reports saying that the Ubuntu USB disk image
doesn't boot for a number of USB disks. This could be the same
problem...? If I can get this thing to boot, then maybe Ubuntu can
support more, if not all, 1GB+ USB sticks for the Laptop Remix. I'd
love to see that happen...

I've hit a wall here. If anyone can point me in a direction for trying
to get a USB disk, formatted with 2048 byte sectors, to boot Ubuntu
I'd greatly appreciate the help, and would gladly post exactly what I
did to make it work.


W

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Faizan Kazi <faizan.s.kazi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you using the command line to format this drive? try gparted... or if
> you go to System >> Administration >> USB startup disk creator, it mayb even
> partition it for you automatically.
>
>
> Regards
> Fez
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