[IAEP] Anyone gotten a 4GB or greater USB stick to work for Sugar on a Stick?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 04:04:46PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Caroline Meeks
><caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>> trying to tease out what all the different failure mechanisms are
>
>One failure mode I know of:  Most USB sticks come pre-formatted from
>factory in a funny "FAT-16 LBA" partition mode and fs format. If you
>remove the partition and recreated it, most tools (and users!) will
>default to FAT-32 for new FAT partitions.
>
>And oftentimes BIOSes can't handle booting from FAT-32. I've spotted
>this on my (earlyish) EEE 701 and I think OFW also has (had?) this
>limitation.
>
>So if you have a non-booting disk, it's worthwhile asking fdisk about
>the partition mode, and check what the file utility says about the
>contents of the block device (in the partition).

Not sure if it has been discussed already, but are you aware of the 
commandline tool makebootfat?

http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/boot-readme.html

If nothing else, its manpage has valuable hints about various 
limitations, quirks and hacks.


  - Jonas

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