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USB Repair disk

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HeSitated
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Joined: 26 Jun 2009, 12:36
Location: Ede, The Netherlands

USB Repair disk

Post by HeSitated »

I tried to create a USB disk to reinstall my B2 following this HowTo
root@bubba:~# sfdisk -D /dev/sdb
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
OK

Disk /dev/sdb: 1013 cylinders, 16 heads, 62 sectors/track
Old situation:
Units = cylinders of 507904 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 0+ 1012 1013- 502447+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sdb2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Input in the following format; absent fields get a default value.
<start> <size> <type [E,S,L,X,hex]> <bootable [-,*]> <c,h,s> <c,h,s>
Usually you only need to specify <start> and <size> (and perhaps <type>).

/dev/sdb1 :0 1013 6
/dev/sdb1 0+ 1012 1013- 502417 6 FAT16
/dev/sdb2 :
/dev/sdb2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb3 :
/dev/sdb3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb4 :
/dev/sdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
New situation:
Units = cylinders of 507904 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 0+ 1012 1013- 502417 6 FAT16
/dev/sdb2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Warning: no primary partition is marked bootable (active)
This does not matter for LILO, but the DOS MBR will not boot this disk.
Do you want to write this to disk? [ynq] y
Successfully wrote the new partition table

Re-reading the partition table ...

If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1)
to zero the first 512 bytes: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1
(See fdisk(8).)
Windows XP reports "Disk in drive G is not formatted", so i format it (FAT32). Put the files in the root, but until now it is bring me any succes... :twisted:

Anybody?
asparak
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Joined: 08 Jun 2009, 07:38

Re: USB Repair disk

Post by asparak »

Its not a Windows disk.

Use the ISO fiel to basically burn an image to the disk. Windows will not be able to read the contents, but it should be able to boot your Bubba.

I've been through the process and it works fine.

Rik
HeSitated
Posts: 30
Joined: 26 Jun 2009, 12:36
Location: Ede, The Netherlands

Re: USB Repair disk

Post by HeSitated »

asparak wrote:Use the ISO file to basically burn an image to the disk.
Sorry, but which ISO file :?:
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