Anne Wilson wrote: > > I don't know whether this will give anyone any ideas/clues, but I found this > quote: > > "I have Avixe Platinum Drives, 512MB and 1G. They can't be formatted as FAT32, > only FAT16, ext2, ext3, etc. and can only be booted as USB-ZIP on BIOS > setting, while running FAT16 zip geometry with syslinux as boot loader. With > grub as bootloader running on FAT16 non of the BIOS setting > USB-HDD/USB-ZIP/USB-FDD, etc. can detect it." > > Mikkel, are you there? Does this suggest anything to you? > > Anne > I find it strange that any drive of that size can not be formatted FAT32. I could see where the BIOS might have a problem if it is looking for a specific signature at the start of the drive. I would think you could get around it for Grub by installing to the boot record of the active partition instead of the MBR. I have no idea why they wouldn't format as FAT32 though. That seems really strange to me. But I have not used that brand, so maybe there is something strange about them. I don't have much experience with booting from USB drives. My laptop does not support it, and I don't really have much call to boot the desktops that way. (I will be able to play with this soon - getting a new laptop...) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
