Re: Cannot run from live USB on laptop
On 15/02/15 03:45 AM, Ram wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Whats is small zero fill?
>
> Erasing with 'dd if=/dev/null ...' ?
I'm sure you meant to say /dev/zero! But I somehow doubt if this was
Jędrzej's issue.
>
> if so, then
> if the purpose is to erase the mbr then end with '... bs=512 count=1'
> if the purpose is to erase the first MiB give '... bs=512 count=2048'
>
> From the output device ('...of=/dev/xxx ...') be sure of what is being
> erased where and why.
Right. You can us ls -l /dev/disk/by-id to identify it.
Ben
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