USB drive with 2 partitionsForum: USB booting Topic: USB drive with 2 partitions started by: kingmonkey Posted by kingmonkey on Mar. 27 2005,13:28
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. Posted by kingmonkey on Mar. 28 2005,13:06
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?
Posted by clivesay on Mar. 28 2005,17:58
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 Posted by ke4nt1 on Mar. 29 2005,03:00
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 |