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15.7 Legacy Series / [SOLVED] USB Installer img dd problem
« on: October 24, 2015, 03:41:42 pm »
Hello,
This is just a notification of a problem I had installing via USB following the software installation guide.
Using linux to "dd" the image to the USB drive seemed to work fine, at least fdisk -l showed two partitions (in my case /dev/sdc4 and /dev/sdc4p4). However, booting from it was not possible; just a blank screen with a spinning cursor, no text of any kind. I confirmed that the hash of the bz2 file matched the checksum provided on the mirror, so a dodgy download couldn't be the problem.
I tried with a second USB drive from a different manufacturer, again same result.
So I tried a third time to dd the image, this time I didn't specify the "bs=16k" option, I just removed that. To my surprise, I was able to boot and install without any issues!
I have no idea if this is some sort of quirk with my particular system or not, just thought a heads up would be in order in any case.
Thanks!
This is just a notification of a problem I had installing via USB following the software installation guide.
Using linux to "dd" the image to the USB drive seemed to work fine, at least fdisk -l showed two partitions (in my case /dev/sdc4 and /dev/sdc4p4). However, booting from it was not possible; just a blank screen with a spinning cursor, no text of any kind. I confirmed that the hash of the bz2 file matched the checksum provided on the mirror, so a dodgy download couldn't be the problem.
I tried with a second USB drive from a different manufacturer, again same result.
So I tried a third time to dd the image, this time I didn't specify the "bs=16k" option, I just removed that. To my surprise, I was able to boot and install without any issues!
I have no idea if this is some sort of quirk with my particular system or not, just thought a heads up would be in order in any case.
Thanks!