gra hoom said : > Hello karsten, > > when I run fdisk -l > > I get the following > > ---------------------- > 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. > > -------------------- > > 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
First of all, I apologize for the hassle you're having with the stick. One problem with making the sticks is that its quite a time-consuming process, which, if I were to test every single stick would become even lengthier. I hope you understand that something like this can happen. The partitions look ok to me, plugging in a stick of which I know that it works i get a similar output. Did you run fsck /dev/sdX (or fsck -a /dev/sdX to fix potential problems) on the 2 partitions as I mentioned in my earlier email? Would be good to test this and see if the stick boots after that. If this doesn't work I think the best is to re-format the drive and put puredyne on it again. Sorry for the hassle! But the good side is you did support us, which is great, and you also got a collectors item memory stick dedicated just for this purpose. I hope that eases some of your disappointment :) greetings, karsten > > > 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 > > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > Do you want a Hotmail account? Sign-up now - Free > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
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