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

[James Courtier-Dutton]

2009/9/30 Daniel Mierswa <address@hidden>:
> 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
>

>From that, you do not appear to have a partition table, therefore you
will not have an embedded area at all, and so grub will not install.
usb sticks can be formatted in two ways.
1) with a partition sector and partitions like a Hard Disk.
(embedded area exists)
2) with no partition sector and no partitions like a Floppy Disk. (no
embedded area exists)

You will probably have to add partitions to your flash disk so that
grub can be installed on it.
WARNING: Changing partitions will wipe all the usb stick contents and
possibly your Hard Disk contents (if you mistype the device name)