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New Boot Drive 16 GB -> 4 GB

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MTCAT:
And of course, thanks for all the help.

Rich:
Hi MTCAT
I'd like you to try something. Try plugging the 4 Gig USB
drive into a desktop or laptop computer and see if it tries
to boot on it.

I'm wondering if maybe the USB 4 Gig device is fine, but
your hardware just doesn't like it for some reason.

MTCAT:
Hi Rich,

Strangely, my old ASUS laptop (2.6.21 kernel) wasn't working off any external drives (for booting) and my "newer" Panasonic Toughbooks (WinXP) don't allow me to select a USB removable drive for booting, only options being Floppy, HDD or CD.

But my wife's old Sony VAIO (Win Vista) did have an external boot option, so I was finally able to get a reliable external boot test with that, the 4G Cactus pen drive did not boot though, once again getting a SYSLINUX "Boot error", I was able to boot up an old non-real time TinyCore 3.8.4 though on my wife's old Sony VAIO off an old SanDisk pen drive, so that did work, even had your little "tinierclock.sh" going!, although the time was wrong since the GPS wasn't connected.

So I don't know what the problem is with this 4G Cactus drive, I used dd to make a direct copy from another (shrunk partition) drive, which does boot, so should be a good place to start from, then you helped me fix the partition table on the 4G Cactus drive, we made sure that the boot flag is on, so why won't it boot?, weird.

Thanks,

David

MTCAT:
Hi Rich,

Update, I was able to get my Panasonic Toughbooks to boot off external drives, just had to play around in the BIOS a bit more, but was the same result, 4G Cactus drive "Boot error", but old non real-time TC 3.8.4 was able to boot up.

Scary thought maybe, could SYSLINUX be re-installed on the 4G Cactus drive w/o messing up the rest of 4G drive?

Thanks,

David

MTCAT:
Hi Rich,

Correction, it's actually extlinux I'm using (SYSLINUX for ext4) since it's an extlinux.cfg file that has all the boot options in it.

Thanks,

David

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