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Posted: Sep. 06 2004,19:46 QUOTE
All autodetection of ALL your drives, HD, CDROM, USB, FLOPPY, etc..
takes place during the bootup...
Have your USB key plugged in before you bootup.
Then you can plug/unplug at will once your up and running..

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Patrick
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Posted: Sep. 07 2004,07:55 QUOTE
Hello,

I've got a sandisk mini cruzer 128 Mb and i keep getting this error:

Formatting /dev/sda1
mkdosfs 2.9 (15 May 2003)
Setting up boot loader on /mnt/sda1
Total number of sectors not a multiple of sectors per track!
Add mtools_skip_check=1 to your .mtoolsrc file to skip this test
Error writing boot sector

I've have tried to use fdisk to change/create a new partition but that didn't help.

What do i need to do (and how)?
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Patrick
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Posted: Sep. 07 2004,08:08 QUOTE
Hello,

i tried frugal on my sandisk minicruzer 128 Mb (usb-stick) and got this error:

Formatting /dev/sda1
mkdosfs 2.9 (15 May 2003)
Setting up boot loader on /mnt/sda1
Total number of sectors not a multiple of sectors per track!
Add mtools_skip_check=1 to your .mtoolsrc file to skip this test
Error writing boot sector

What should i do? (HELP!)

I am booting from the CD and i can mount my stick.

Somehow i think that i should re-format/fdisk my stick but i don't know how....
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Posted: Sep. 07 2004,15:40 QUOTE
Patrick,
What is the output of " cfdisk /dev/sda "
Specifically..
1. How many partitions, 0, 1, or 2-or-more ..
2. What kind ( type )  Fat, ext2, 83, 6,
3. What is your c,h,s, counts .. cylinders,sectors,heads

If repartitoning or reformatting is required, which it sounds like,
This info will be helpful for us to guide you thru..

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Posted: Sep. 07 2004,16:00 QUOTE
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Total number of sectors not a multiple of sectors per track!
Add mtools_skip_check=1 to your .mtoolsrc file to skip this test
Error writing boot sector

Yes, I got that error too on my sandisk minicruzer.
However a simple delete parition and made a new partition of type 6 cleaned up the bad partition. This usually works on "smaller" usb pendrives. On large ones you must be careful to make a suitable partition of 32 sectors per track of 512 block and cyclinders not more than 1024. That is needed for syslinux to boot.
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