Failure to dd diskboot.img to pen drive

[Clodoaldo]

2007/11/15, Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie>:
> On Thursday 15 November 2007 20:08, Clodoaldo wrote:
> > I want to install F8 from a 1GB pen drive but dd does not work,
> > although I can mount it. dd shows it worked:
> >
> > # dd if=/home/cpn/Desktop/Downloads/diskboot.img of=/dev/sdb1
> > 24576+0 records in
> > 24576+0 records out
> > 12582912 bytes (13 MB) copied, 0.307408 s, 40.9 MB/s
> >
>
>
> I've just done it. Try
>
> dd if=/home/cpn/Desktop/Downloads/diskboot.img of=/dev/sdb
>
> Don't specify a partition.
>


It worked. Thanks, Clodoaldo


> > But there is nothing in the directory:
> >
> > [root at dkt ~]# ll /media/KINGSTON/
> > total 0
> >
> > fdisk -l shows strange messages:
> >
> > # fdisk -l
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
> > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 158816 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sda1   *           1         203      102280+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sda2             204      158816    79940952   8e  Linux LVM
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdb: 1027 MB, 1027604480 bytes
> > 32 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1011 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 1984 * 512 = 1015808 bytes
> >
> > This doesn't look like a partition table
> > Probably you selected the wrong device.
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sdb1   ?      966294     1813487   840415161   69  Unknown
> > Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> >      phys=(612, 109, 33) logical=(966293, 30, 10)
> > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
> >      phys=(255, 97, 46) logical=(1813486, 20, 39)
> > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> > /dev/sdb2   ?      976282     1834012   850868148+  ff  BBT
> > Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> >      phys=(367, 115, 35) logical=(976281, 15, 17)
> > Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
> >      phys=(80, 13, 10) logical=(1834011, 14, 55)
> > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> > /dev/sdb3   ?      891259     1782449   884061367   6c  Unknown
> > Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> >      phys=(355, 116, 37) logical=(891258, 2, 52)
> > Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
> >      phys=(112, 97, 32) logical=(1782448, 31, 27)
> > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> > /dev/sdb4   ?           1     1790834  1776506368    0  Empty
> > Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> >      phys=(10, 114, 13) logical=(0, 0, 1)
> > Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
> >      phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(1790833, 1, 2)
> > Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> >
> > Partition table entries are not in disk order
> >
> >
> > When I try to enter fdisk the device can't be opened:
> >
> > # fdisk sdb
> >
> > Unable to open sdb
> >
> > # ll /dev/sdb1
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12582912 2007-11-15 17:56 /dev/sdb1
> >
> > Any workaround?
> >
> > Regards, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto
>
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