We found that some USB drives are unable to work, by design. For example, certain versions of the SanDisk Cruizer are preloaded with U3 Launchpad software. Writing directly to the /dev/sdx device using 'dd' does not clear the disk or remove the software and leaves the drive un-bootable.
To fix this we visited SanDisk's web site, download a tool to a Microsoft Windows machine and used it to remove the software. The link is here: www.sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1415 After software removal, however, the SanDisk Cruizer worked reliably. On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Mahalingam, Nithish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for getting back late on this… > > > > @Tobin – No luck… even doing it with bs=1024 did not work. > > @Alex – No luck with your solution either… I did put a sleep as you suggested > in the install.sh script still I am not seeing /dev/hda1 getting created. > > > > I also tried pulling in the latest MIC just hoping if someone had fixed this, > same issue surfaced even with the latest MIC code. Is someone looking into > this issue? I feel this is something critical that has broken. I trying to > dig into MIC to understand the code if someone can tell me where to look for > I would really appreciate that. > > > > Regards, > > Nithish Mahalingam > > > > From: Tobin Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:07 AM > To: Lopatin, Alexander L > Cc: Mahalingam, Nithish; Lynch, Rusty; dev@moblin.org > Subject: RE: [Moblin Dev] Issue with 'Install USB'? > > > > I have experienced this issue before, and it is related to how the image is > copied to the usb drive. Try manually copying the image with "dd bs=1024 > if=<image.img> of=/dev/sda" (where <image.img> is the image file under your > project/targets/<target name>/images/ directory - this also assumes that your > usb drive is /dev/sda, change accordingly). > > The reason for this as best as I can figure out is that the image filesystem > is created with a default block size of 1024, but when using dd to write to a > usb drive, it defaults to a different block size, and file locations get out > of alignment. What ever the reason, using "bs=1024" has worked for me 99% of > the time, whereas without I only get ~30% success. > > Tobin > > > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:10 -0700, Lopatin, Alexander L wrote: > > > It looks like the installation script (install.sh on install USB) failed to > partition your hard drive /dev/hda1: > > 1. You can try to boot with LiveRW image and see if /dev/hda1 was partitioned > 2. Add '/bin/sleep 5' before second 'sync' in the install.sh script (after > fdisk /dev/${device} sequence). It once helped me by some reason. > > Alex > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mahalingam, > Nithish > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 21:54 > To: Lynch, Rusty > Cc: dev@moblin.org > Subject: RE: [Moblin Dev] Issue with 'Install USB'? > > Any idea on this guys? > > Regards, > Nithish Mahalingam > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Mahalingam, Nithish > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:11 AM > To: Lynch, Rusty > Cc: dev@moblin.org > Subject: RE: [Moblin Dev] Issue with 'Install USB'? > > Hi Rusty, > > At boot time I am seeing - > > > Begin: Waiting for root file system > Check root=bootarg cat /proc/cmdline > or missing modules, device: cat /proc/modules ls /dev > ALERT! /dev/hda1 does not exist. Dropping to shell! > > (initramfs) ..... > ....... > > > /dev/hda1 does not exist??? Is that the problem? > > > Regards, > Nithish Mahalingam > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lynch, Rusty > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:28 AM > To: Mahalingam, Nithish > Cc: Lopatin, Alexander L; dev@moblin.org > Subject: RE: [Moblin Dev] Issue with 'Install USB'? > > Do you have any clue in the console? Any error messages? > > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 00:23 +0530, Mahalingam, Nithish wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> I guess the problem I am facing now to different to - >> >> I am able to create a Install USB image successfully and also am able > to >> install it on an HDD (I have a 20GB HDD). After installation when I >> remove the USB drive and try to boot the newly installed OS from the > HDD >> the system hangs at boot time. By the way I can see the grub updated > for >> the newly installed OS on the HDD. >> >> >> Regards, >> Nithish Mahalingam >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Lopatin, Alexander L >> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:18 AM >> To: Mahalingam, Nithish; dev@moblin.org >> Subject: RE: [Moblin Dev] Issue with 'Install USB'? >> >> Here is a week old posting: [Moblin Dev] Issue creating Install USB >> image with the latest MIC? >> >> I also ran yesterday into the same problem while creating an Install > USB >> image for device with 2GB drive. >> >> One place to fix this is defaults.cfg file as Praj wrote, but also the >> MIC script platforms/common-apt/install.sh could be fixed the way it >> will stop and give the error message "Disk is too small to create > boot, >> main/data, swap and fat32 partitions" in case when sum of >> boot_partition_size, swap__partition_size, and fat32_partition_size >> greater then the disk size. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Alex >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >> Of Prajwal Mohan >> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 02:00 >> To: Mahalingam, Nithish >> Cc: dev@moblin.org >> Subject: Re: [Moblin Dev] Issue creating Install USB image with the >> latest MIC? >> >> You can customize the boot partition and other partition size. To do >> this create a file ~/.image-creator/image-creator.cfg and use >> /usr/share/pdk/default_config/defaults.cfg as a template. >> Thanks, >> Praj >> >> >> Mahalingam, Nithish wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > >> > >> > Today I noticed that with the latest MIC I am not able to create >> working >> > "Install USB" image that would install successfully on the Menlow >> > platform. Here is what I tried - >> > >> > >> > >> > 1. I created a Menlow-lpia project and created a new target. >> > >> > 2. I included the Crownbeach-mobile-complete-stack FSET and >> inside >> > the terminal window I built a new 2.6.22 kernel for some experiment > of >> > mine. >> > >> > 3. Created a "Install USB" image and burned it onto the USB >> > >> > 4. When I try to install this image on Menlow I am seeing an >> error >> > while the installer tries to copy the squashfs file system saying > the >> cp >> > failed for root.img as there was no disk space. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > The HDD I am using a Seagate 80GB and I have installed Menlow >> > successfully with the previous version of MIC. By the way Live RW >> image >> > works fine without any issue. >> > >> > >> > >> > Now what I doubt is - I see that the installer tries to partition > the >> > hard disk and then tries to copy the files to the appropriate >> partition; >> > now is the root.img file size exceeding the partition size? >> > >> > I must admit that with two kernels being built in my image and with >> the >> > kernel source for one of the Install USB kernels image size is > ~1.1GB. >> > >> > >> > >> > Can someone help here? >> > >> > >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Nithish Mahalingam >> > >> > >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >> Of Mahalingam, Nithish >> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:43 >> To: dev@moblin.org >> Subject: [Moblin Dev] Issue with 'Install USB'? >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I have been trying to create an 'Install USB' image for menlow-lpia >> platform with moblin-crownbeach-full-mobile-stack FSET added and I am >> seeing an hang during OS boot after the OS installation completed on > the >> HDD from the Install USB image. There is no issue when I boot the OS >> with an Live RW. Is there any issue with the Install USB image > off-late? >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Nithish Mahalingam >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> dev@moblin.org >> https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> dev@moblin.org >> https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@moblin.org > https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@moblin.org > https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@moblin.org > https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > -- Tobin Davis > > > "Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics." > -- French Proverb > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@moblin.org > https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@moblin.org https://www.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
