Problems with USB key (tip #40 on fedoranews.org)

Colin Charles linux at bytebot.net
Thu Feb 12 16:24:41 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 02:47, Michael T. Gericke wrote:

> I am trying to get my USB key working, following tip #40 on 
> fedoranews.org, which suggest doing the following:

Do write to the guy who wrote the article.

>  /etc/fstab file
> 
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey vfat 
> user,iocharset=utf8,umask=0,sync,quiet,exec,codepage=866,noauto 0 0

Personally, I'd drop all that. Let's try
"user,sync,umask=0,noauto,quiet,noauto"

If you don't do that, doing

	mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey

> Feb 11 11:08:48 gericke kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector
> Feb 11 11:08:48 gericke kernel: FAT: freeing iocharset=utf8
> Feb 11 11:08:48 gericke devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted

Disk issues?

I seriously suggest, mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey and seeing it
work. Some of the options there look like they're cruft.

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