Re: Using bootxx_fat16

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 04 Jan 2008, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> I took a pen drive, formatted it under Windows to ensure it had a clean FAT 
> (not FAT32) filesystem, then copied /boot and a kernel to the filesystem.
> [...]
> I set the first partition as active. bootxx_fat16 is doing its magic 
> loading /boot. However, once in the boot loader, I can't find a working 
> path to the kernel.

I had a similar problem, which went away when I added a disklabel
(in the space between the MBR and the start of the FAT partition).

--apb (Alan Barrett)