On 2/15/26 04:27, Tim via users wrote:
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.
The drive is 256GB. I do not have room. I use to do the dd thing
when I was using smaller drives.
You may simply have a failing drive.
I have had this issue with several flash drives of different
manufacturer. The current drive is an NVMe drive in a
usb-C carrier.
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.
I always make sure Widows is off before inserting. I do not
trust Windows.
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.
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