On Sun, 2026-02-15 at 03:55 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Problem: it is a one shot use. I have to wipe and > reinstall the things every time I use it in the field. > As far as I can tell, something is royally corrupting > my /boot. It is a total pain in my neck. > > So I am after a script I can run at my office to repair > my ability to boot. (Every thing else on the stick > is okay.) > > Even though I have wonderful directions on how and what > to reinstall Fedora on the stick, I am tired of it and > am in no mood to continue reinstalling every thing > every time I use it in the field.
Well, the simplistic approach to recreating the same thing over and over, is to "dd" the entire drive (when it was in a working condition) to a file, and "dd" that file back to the drive. It's essentially a bitdump of everything, rather than handling individual things. You may simply have a failing drive. It could be that if you insert such a drive into a running version of Windows, it's doing whatever it wants and is modifying the drive in a corrupting way. You can get the same thing with inserting any USB or SD card into a PC running Windows, or even Android phones. Things get done by the OS for the sake of those operating systems doing things its own way. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
