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Topic: USB Boot: "Flashy Cursor of Death", Having problems booting from USB stick

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ke4nt1

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Posted: Sep. 10 2004,02:48

Welcome Joel,

Type 6 partitions are FAT16 , not W95 FAT32
I have made non-bootable partitions this way,
but so far, only type 6 have worked for me.
It needs to emulate a floppy..

Try changing partition TYPE only with "cfdisk /dev/sda"
remember to reboot so the new partition table will be
recognized by autoconfig BEFORE you attempt to make it
a bootable install again..

Also, you might turn on the DOS boot flag.
Some USBkeys don't need this , as I have witnessed ..
But I don't know if that applies to ALL USBkeys

73 de Kent
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caulktel

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Posted: Sep. 10 2004,03:34

Kent,

Must be a vanity call, I should do that, I have had this call forever.
Anyway I tried changing the partition id's to 6, and turning on the bootable flag on sda1, but still no go. The terminal box just goes away when I type y to the last chance message. The led does flutter for just a second though. Am I understanding this right, that this script puts a frugal install on the thumb drive, right? For a moment, I thought that all this did was put the floppy image on the drive, but that wouldn't be of much use. Here is new table:
Disk /dev/sda: 132 MB, 132120576 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 126 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 63 64496 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 64 126 64512 b W95 FAT32

Any help would be apreciated.

Joel
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ke4nt1

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Posted: Sep. 10 2004,03:53

I'm curious to see the error message that flashes..

Rather than use the menu selection, start a root shell
( use your mouse to select Xshells>Root Access from the menu )

Then run "/usr/sbin/dsl-usbinstall"

When you hit the error, hopefully the shell should stay open.
Then we can see the error..

73
ke4nt
( and I'm in 5 land , only the 4 was available )

caulktel

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Posted: Sep. 10 2004,12:50

Kent,
Here is what it says:
Setting up boot loader on /mnt/sda1
sh: line1: mcopy: command not found error writing boot sector.

So it's saying that it can't find the mcopy command? I hope this helps.

Joel
KB6QVI

On another note, (b flat I think), my usb mouse gets detected and works, but wont scroll tilll I dump the Xserver and run xsetup.sh then start the server again. I dont know if that would have to be done before copying to the usb drive, so that the scroll would work. I guess it wouldn't matter because it is going out and getting a image from somewhere else.

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Posted: Sep. 10 2004,13:36

i think there is a little problem in the dsl-usbinstall.sh

if you start a root shell and run "/usr/sbin/dsl-usbinstall"
this installs itself into /home/dsl. that is it unpack all code needed
and than runs: sudo ./frugal_usb.sh

now this is i think where it goes wrong:
sudo runs frugal_usb.sh in the ROOT enviromet (not in /home/dsl) and sinds there is no PATH to /home/dsl/mcopy it tries to find it in the /

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