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Topic: USB disk used to boot, yet now it doesn't, Why would this be?

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MikeHunt79 Offline

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Posted: May 06 2005,14:45

ok, I managed to sneakily make a dsl cd while at work.

Here is what happens when i do a "sfdisk -l /dev/sda":

Disk /dev/sda: 31 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0+ 30 31- 248976 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty

EDIT: Does this look ok? Is there any adjustments I can do?

Caspar_s

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Posted: May 06 2005,22:13

Nope, looks wrong.

According to the docs...
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/86
it should be 32 sectors per track. (also I wiped all the partitions on mine - why they come standard with 4 partitions, three of which have no space is beyond me

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