Re: Faulty BIOS or GRUB issue (USB Stick won't boot)

[Daniel Mierswa]

On 30.09.2009 10:26, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Can you do a
> fdisk -u -l /dev/sdb
But of course.

Disk /dev/usb1: 1041 MB, 1041961984 bytes
33 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1010 cylinders, total 2035082 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

> If the first partition of the usb stick starts at sector less than 63,
> grub has probably not been installed due to lack of embedded area.
Yes I've seen that by searching the web. If that's the case grub-install 
would complain that it cannot embed core.img into the header, wouldn't 
it? Either way I've checked the size of core.img:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23784 2009-09-30 20:59 /mnt/root/boot/grub/core.img

So it would require ~50 Sectors, since the partition starts at sector 62 
it _should_ work, no? I think i can remember setting a different 
sectors/track (above 63) back in the days but it didn't change any 
behaviour on boot.

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Mierswa, Daniel

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