Knoppix on a usb flash drive - Part 2

Well i tried installing it on my 1GB flash drive (Verbatim) So that’s

750M on /dev/sda1 FAT 16

250M on /dev/sda2 ext2 (for persistant disk image)

It worked. . . now that makes the fact that the Sony 4GB flash drive doesn’t work even more unusual.

Possible causes:

-on the sony flash card there may be a hidden partition with Sony software that’s preventing the boot

if there was a partition, it’s long gone, so i suspect that this wasn’t the problem

-might have something to do with the 4GB drive geometry

-could have something to do with the extra FAT32 partition on the Sony

-ran syslinux -sf /dev/sda1 first on Verbatim Drive (and used rsync and used different copy order)

-Sony memory stick may simply not be bootable due to other unforseen limitations.

~ by lucidity on April 6, 2008.