[Sugar-devel] Unbootable machine

[Luke Faraone]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:25, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

> makebootfat not only formats with disk geometry that *is* right, but also
> use a handcrafted MBR which has a higher chance of *looking* right by
> various BIOSes - both when looking for USB-FDD, USB-ZIP and USB-HDD.

Now, by *right*, do we mean not only that but also something that meets the
criteria of
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device#How_to_win(without
the problems caused by
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device#Screwed-up_formatting
)?


I'm not too familiar with how USB flash works, so I don't know if USB-{FDD,
ZIP, HDD} layouts are compatible with the layout you'd want to minimize
wear.

Thanks,
Luke Faraone
http://luke.faraone.cc
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