I have 4GB USB flash drive stick plugged into laptop on debian 8.1. It contains one bootable partition 2GB created and formatted as FAT16 in Windows. What only I did try everything didn't. Maybe I am doing something wrong? What I tried:
- mount -t msdos /dev/sdb1 /media/usb1
- mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usb1
- added line "/dev/sdb1 /media/usb1 vfat defaults 0 0" to file /etc/fstab, then mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usb1
- added line "/dev/sdb1 /media/usb1 msdos auto" to file /etc/fstab, then mount /dev/sdb1 or mount /media/usb1
And every time I got the same error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so.
UPDATE:
qet@qet-PC:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 3.9 GiB, 4194304000 bytes, 8192000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x6da2a859
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 63 4209092 4209030 2G e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
fdisk -l /dev/sdb
show when the card is inserted but not yet mounted?