Hi, Erik Christiansen writes:
> On 20.03.18 15:26, Florian Zieboll wrote: >> >> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:58:08 +1100 >> Erik Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt. >> > DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" >> >> That looks like you used some 3rd-party tool like unetbootin to create >> the boot-stick. The easiest way, as stated by Didier Kryn earlier in >> this thread, would be to simply 'dd' the iso to the raw device. > > I first thought "Ah goody, mistakes are fine so long as I learn from > them.", but then I did a ^r on the commandline to check, and found: > > (reverse-i-search)`dd': dd > if=~/Downloads/devuan_ascii_2.0.0-beta_i386_NETINST.iso of=/dev/sdb1 > bs=512k Shouldn't that be of=/dev/sdb, without the 1? But last time I copied an installer ISO to a stick, I simply used the cp command. See https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en > There had been debian 9 on that stick, placed with unetbootin, but I'd > expected the dd to fully overwrite it. I might try doing it all again, > after I overcome a more immediate problem. > > The dd of Jessie netinst did copy OK, and install, but there's a boot > problem with it, and I'll start another subthread to keep things > coherent. Boot problem, you say? Well it might be just that you've put the image in the first partition of the stick rather than on the stick itself. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
