On 09/02/14 16:46, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 02/09/2014 15:10, Joseph wrote:
On 09/02/14 10:56, Mick wrote:
On 2 September 2014 09:00, Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:23:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 0 389119 194560 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
I don't know if it matters or not but on one of my sticks, I get this:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 * 1 3915775 1957887+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Mine is FAT32 where yours is NTFS. Could that difference cause this
problem?
No, it's just fdisk trying to guess the type of a filesystem that isn't
actually there. I've just run it over 7 distro ISOs and got "Hidden
HPFS/NTFS" for 5 of them.
Well, it seems everyone is grasping at straws. So far, that is the only
difference I have seen. It's a head scratcher for sure.
Dale
There's some more straws to grasp, namely the partition table that the
OP created with fdisk, as well as the first partition on it:
Assuming the USB is still on /dev/sdb, then use fdisk to delete
partition /dev/sdb1.
Then manually delete the USB DOS partition table:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
Finally, reinstall the iso once more without creating any partitions
manually:
dd if=/home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso
of=/dev/sdb
sync
NOTE: Make sure that /dev/sdb is indeed your USB stick or you'll cause
damage
to whatever is on /dev/sdb.
--
Regards,
Mick
I just did as you suggested dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
dd if=/home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso of=/dev/sdb
sync
make no difference, the USB still will not boot.
what *does* happen when you try boot of the usb.
Something must happen on the screen, please describe that
--
Alan McKinnon
[email protected]
I have tried it on two boxes, they are both small units without CD
1.) First is an older box that can not boot from Gentoo ISO USB generated with
"dd"
BIOS setting are:
USB-ZIP
USB-FDD
Hard Disk
2.) The second box is an ATOM-330 and the same USB boots OK.
So the issue might be with the Bios on the first box.
--
Joseph
