Attempt to create usb live fails twice

[unruh]

I have just treid to create a USB Live Toronto version using the menu item in the Toronto desktop which I booted up from CD. After a lengthy usb write I tried to boot from it. Since the laptop is a bit old I had to use the cdrom and choose the "boot from usb" item. The first time I got a

bad loopback -- trying to run it by hand, it said that the FAT system was corrupt. I then erased and reinstalled to the usb using the menu item. Booting the usb using the Cd again, I got that it could not load the unionfs module -- bad module error message.

Now it is possible that the usb stick I have (GTX 2GB ) is defective, but I just tried writing the whole MCLive iso to the device, and the md5 sum checked out fine. Ie, it seems that the device works at lease with that one brief test (Ie, writing 400 MB to the device is fine, but that the writing to the usb via the mklivecd is defective twice seems a bit weird. (Mind you I didi this test on a different machine than the one I tried to install from.

 

 

Has anyone else been having trouble with Toronto? Is there anything someone can guess I am doing wrong?

[chris:b]

Did you use the menu item: Create Live USB?

Did you get any errors?

 

Please do the following. Start the Live CD - without plugged usb stick.

 

Wait until you are in KDE. Plugin the stick. Wait two seconds.

Open a terminal. And type:

 

su
fdisk -l

 

Post the output here. Copy & paste, don't type it, please.

 

PS: you can't "write the iso to the device" - or, I don't understand what you mean.

 

It does not matter on which computer you setup the usb stick.

[unruh]

>Did you use the menu item: Create Live USB?

Yes.

 

Did you get any errors?

No

 

 

Please do the following. Start the Live CD - without plugged usb stick.

 

Wait until you are in KDE. Plugin the stick. Wait two seconds.

Open a terminal. And type:

 

su
fdisk -l

 

Post the output here. Copy & paste, don't type it, please.

Difficult to do since that output is on another computer.

 Device   Boot	  Start		   End			Blocks			   ID	 System
/dev/dsa1  *			1			  500			991969			 b	   W95  FAT32
/dev/sda1			  501		   1015		  1021760		   83	  Linux

 

PS: you can't "write the iso to the device" - or, I don't understand what you mean.

I meant writing the system to the stick using MCN menu item

 

It does not matter on which computer you setup the usb stick.

The question was whether or not there was something wrong with the USB port on the computer.

I tried on different machines to rule out that possibility.

[chris:b]

Uh ah, the output can't be /dev/dsa1 * and /dev/sda1 .

 

It does not matter on which system you do run fdisk -l with the plugged stick. It does not matter on which system you do the Create Live USB wizard. The result is a Live USB that should run on all systems.

 

I got that it could not load the unionfs module -- bad module error message.

 

I need the exact error message, at least the last 2 lines.

If it says: dropping you to a limited shell, and you get a prompt. Then you have a second stage boot problem. Looks like a usb port problem.

You can try a cheatcode:

livecd fromusb irqpoll noapic

 

But I am still not sure if your usb stick is ok.

[unruh]

Uh ah, the output can't be /dev/dsa1 * and /dev/sda1 .

Of course not, mistype, sorry.(Yes, I know, the problems of typing rather than cut and pasting

 

Anyway, I now tried creating it on yet a third system, ( Panasonic toughbook laptop) and this time it worked and I managed to boot from the usb stick( well from CD

since the bios cannot boot from usb--it is about 3 years old) . So it seemed to be a problem on both of those usb ports.

 

Yes, it did drop me down to the shell after trying to boot from the usb. Ie, in both cases I had to boot from the CD and select the "Boot from usb" option since all

of my systems seem to be too old to handle usb boots.

 

Seems a lot of the old usb stuff was junk.