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>> > Does the USB stick still boot? It looks like you wiped the wrong |
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>> device. |
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>> Bingo, right as usual! Apparently I wiped the USB stick. I ran fdisk |
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>> and mk2fs -j again (do I want journaling?) and reinstalled Damn Small |
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>> Linux on the stick. For some reason the laptop tell me "missing |
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>> operating system" when I try to boot from the stick now. I need to |
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>> test it on other systems. |
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> Grant, |
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> Take a deep breath and hhink about what you're doing for a second. Did |
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> you just copy files to the stick and expect that it would boot? It' |
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> still needs a bootloader (LILO, GRUB, SYSLINUX, or whatever) in order to |
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> load the OS on the stick. Your dd wiped out *everything* |
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I think unetbootin installs a bootloader. It worked when I did the |
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above yesterday. |
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- Grant |
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> When you finally do get the stick to boot, run fdisk -l or blkid or |
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> whatever and make sure your target disk is actually what you think it |
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> is. |
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> Anyway might save you some time in the long run... maybe not. |
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