Dne, 25. 04. 2011 05:02:40 je Huang, Tao napisal(a):
> Yes. Debian is installed and running on sda and I am trying to > overwrite the current installation with this disk image. to my understanding, writing with dd on a mounted device leads to unpredictable results, and never guarantees to work. and i think your problem was not caused by differences in dd builds, it was different behaviours of the systems on a modified mounted root partition.
It would seem we're finally getting somewhere. This should be fairly easy to test, namely: performing dd on an *unmounted* (not live) system and seeing if it finally works.
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