USB Booting Woes

[Matt Graham]

On 2016-12-10 11:18, Mark Phillips wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Anon Anon <lokotejones at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Disk label type DoS and NTFS? I bet if you could reformat those
> sdb is formatted as ext4. Not sure why fdisk shows [NTFS].
> /dev/sdb1      ext4 2884121824 1265247048 1472346776  47% 
> /media/backup

> Also, the NTFS drive is not causing the issue. It is the ext4 drive.

The partition table has a "partition type" byte in it, and the 
partition table on sdb has sdb1 as 0x07 (NTFS).  The filesystem on sdb1 
is ext4.  Most Linux utilities don't pay any attention to the "partition 
type" byte.  Your machine's BIOS, however, might.  BIOSes have very 
small brains, and "partition type NTFS but the filesystem isn't NTFS" 
may be confusing it.  If I were you, I'd use fdisk to change sdb1 to 
type 0x83 (Linux) and see if that helps.

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