Problem running on USB flash device, Fedora Core 3

[Chris Miles]

address@hidden ~]# parted /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 1.6.15
Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

Using /dev/sdb
(parted) help
  check MINOR                   do a simple check on the filesystem
  cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-MINOR TO-MINOR      copy filesystem to another
partition
  help [COMMAND]                prints general help, or help on COMMAND
  mklabel LABEL-TYPE            create a new disklabel (partition table)
  mkfs MINOR FS-TYPE            make a filesystem FS-TYPE on partititon
MINOR
  mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END      make a partition
  mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END      make a partition with a
filesystem
  move MINOR START END          move partition MINOR
  name MINOR NAME               name partition MINOR NAME
  print [MINOR]                 display the partition table, or a partition
  quit                          exit program
  rescue START END              rescue a lost partition near START and END
  resize MINOR START END        resize filesystem on partition MINOR
  rm MINOR                      delete partition MINOR
  select DEVICE                 choose the device to edit
  set MINOR FLAG STATE          change a flag on partition MINOR
(parted) print
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
address@hidden containing the version (1.6.15), and the following
message:

Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sectors + S == A) at disk_dos.c:495 in
function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
Ignore/Cancel? i
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
address@hidden containing the version (1.6.15), and the following
message:

Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sectors + S == A) at disk_dos.c:495 in
function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
Ignore/Cancel? c
Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
Error: Can't have the end before the start!
Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-1990.000 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.016   1989.999  primary   fat16       boot
(parted) quit
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.

address@hidden ~]# uname -a
Linux j4-fc3.localdomain 2.6.12-1.1376_FC3 #1 Fri Aug 26 23:27:26 EDT
2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
address@hidden ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1990.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 2086 MB, 2086666240 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1990 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        1990     2037743+   6  FAT16

Command (m for help): x

Expert command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1990 cylinders

Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl     Start      Size ID
 1 80   1   1    0  63  32  964         32    4075487 06
 2 00   0   0    0   0   0    0          0          0 00
 3 00   0   0    0   0   0    0          0          0 00
 4 00   0   0    0   0   0    0          0          0 00

Expert command (m for help):