Hello karsten,
when I run fdisk -l
I get the following
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WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk
doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 7122 57207031+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 7122 7296 1398055 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 4040 MB, 4040724480 bytes
125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7750 * 512 = 3968000 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000acc2e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 308 1193359 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(148, 144, 27) logical=(307, 120, 29)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2 308 1019 2752660+ 83 Linux
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(148, 144, 28) logical=(307, 120, 30)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(491, 65, 30) logical=(1018, 40, 60)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
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You'll have to treat me as a newbie - as I am not entirely sure what the above
is telling me - but are you saying essentially I am going to have to re-format
the USB drive I bought from puredyn and do it myself? Which obviously begs the
question what was the point of buying it in the first place? (besides
supporting the project....)
cheers
graham
> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:20:17 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [puredyne] puredyne USB - doesn't boot
>
> gra hoom said :
> > Hello
> >
> > I bought the puredyne USB - mainly because I wanted to support the project.
> >
> > On receiving the USB and trying it out the log in freezes - I get past the
> > menu
> > (with the logo and option to boot) but It stops.
> >
> > There is listed on the screen
> >
> > No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 ext2 ext4 fuseblk
> > Kernal Panic - not syncing: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block
> > (104,1)
> >
> >
> > then a load of other stuff (I don't want to type out)
> >
> > Any tips on how I can solve this ? I've tried it on three different
> > machines
> > to see if it was an issue with the machines - but it happens on all of them.
> >
>
> hm, this is something I've come to see a couple of times before. do
> you have a linux distro installed somewhere on a machine that you
> could pop the stick into and check the partitions? it would be great
> to see if
> 1) the partition table is OK ("msdos" disk label)
> 2) the partitions are clean (i.e. run fsck on them)
>
> after fsck'ing the partitions, and possibly fixing the problems with
> fsck -a /dev/sdX2 try to reboot the stick.
>
> usually, when this happened to me, I had to re-format the drive before
> I could get it to boot. for that you will probably need a copy of the
> puredyne DVD image and the ./make-live-device.sh script from
> http://launchpad.net/bouilloncube as well as gparted. the steps I'd do
> are these:
>
> sudo gparted
>
> erase all partitions from the stick, then create a new 'msdos' disk
> label.
>
> cd /path/to/bouilloncube/sh/
> sudo ./make-live-device.sh path/to/.iso /dev/yourdevice
>
> if all goes well your stick should be done after a short while. before
> unplugging it make sure none of the partitions are mounted though, so
> type:
>
> mount
>
> if the device is listed there still do
>
> sudo umount /dev/yourdevice
>
>
>
> hope this helps...
>
>
> karsten
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