Bug#396931: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz makes usb-stick unusable
Package: installation-report
Version: 02-Nov-2006 16:06 15.0M
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I downloaded the usb-image from
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/
ie. the file
boot.img.gz 02-Nov-2006 16:06 15.0M
Before continuing I get from fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 1021 MB, 1021312512 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 124 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 125 997344 e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(123, 254, 63) logical=(124, 42, 45)
As from the manual
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s04.html
I issue
zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sda
and get from 'fdisk -l'
Disk /dev/sda: 1021 MB, 1021312512 bytes
32 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1952 * 512 = 999424 bytes
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 ? 1547397 1547657 253319 e4 SpeedStor
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(190, 120, 0) logical=(1547396, 26, 15)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(544, 125, 44) logical=(1547656, 11, 47)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 ? 515657 1534084 993984023 98 Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1010, 16, 43) logical=(515656, 25, 37)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(205, 205, 22) logical=(1534083, 1, 42)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 ? 869174 1852732 959953209 7d Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(252, 139, 46) logical=(869173, 1, 19)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(367, 195, 2) logical=(1852731, 20, 61)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 ? 17157 21421 4161536 0 Empty
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(17156, 6, 19)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(21420, 2, 6)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Stick cannot be formatted by cfdisk, but fdisk does the job.
HTH,
Johannes
I downloaded the file twice, 15.0 MB; same result.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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