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On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 08:50 -0800, Grant wrote: |
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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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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. |