USB booting :: USB drive with 2 partitions

I can only get DSL to boot when i split the USB pendrive into a smaller partition. I have tried changing the geometry of the drive to be less than 1024 cylinders but it doesnt like it like that either. My drive is 512MB.

I dont mind having 2 partitions its just that windows only seems to pick up the first partition on the usb drive.

Do any of you guys have a solution or recommendation? Thank you.

I tell you what. Windows 98 picks up the partitions with no problems - WinXP doesnt. Is this crappy drivers in winxp? Can I install the win98 drivers that come with the pendrive onto winxp?

Win98 sees both partitions? If that's so, my dislike for XP grows bigger everyday. XP not seeing both partitions has kept me just using a single partition.

Chris

I , also , have had to partition my 512MB into 2 partitions to use it..

Something about syslinux needing not only 32 spt ,
AND limited to booting within the first 1024 cylinders ,
but also seems to need to see clusters at 512 as well...

So, even though I could do something like ..
32 heads , 32 sectors , and have less than 1024 cylinders ( 992? )
the clusters were 1024, and not 512, killing the bootability of the key.

Even a small partition at the head of the key, like 60MB's ,
using 16,32,1984 as the geometry, worked for me.. ( as USB-ZIP )
..which works ok for me, put DSL on sda1, and stuff on sda2

73
ke4nt

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