>TTK Ciar <ttk@remove_this_and_all_after_org.ciar.org.hyperc ount.com> wrote:
>
><snipped description, IMHO unneccessary complex>

Doubtless it was .. but I like to err in that direction, so that
someone doesn't have to be all that knowledgeable to simply follow
a documented process.

>You are right, important key is to write a valid mbr, I do prefer
>http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/

Cool, thanks for the pointer (and for the additional information
at the end of your post, snipped for brevity). I appreciate it.

>Use as partition type (6) FAT16 and not (b) W95 FAT32, the
>documentation for syslinux says *only* Fat16 can be used.
>
>Which partition type did you actually write/format, might be different
>from the entry in the partition table?

Since no FAT size was specified, mkdosfs defaulted to a FAT16
filesystem (it chooses between FAT12 and FAT16 depending on size
of partition when no size is specified; we used 256MB dongles for
the project).

-- TTK