Bug#604245: [syslinux] Debian bug#604245: Syslinux fails (does not receive key presses on Sony vaio Z12C5E)
On 23 November 2010 23:52, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 14:48, Gyorgy Jeney <nog.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But then I noticed that I wasn't following the (debian) instructions
>> properly and I was writing the image to /dev/sde, instead of
>> /dev/sde1. As soon as a partition was created, an appropriate MBR
>> installed, the image in question worked on the Sony.
>>
>> Is such partition-less configurations supported?
>
> Floppies do it all the time but they also make the file system across
> the entire device and not just a partition.
>
> Strange, I would have expected an error from the installer about no file system.
Do you mind my asking, what installer? The thing that installs
syslinux on the USB key? I guess that didn't complain because during
testing I did:
mkdosfs -I /dev/sde
./linux/syslinux /dev/sde
I guess that means there was a filesystem there.
nog.
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