Re: [9fans] usbinstamd64 on Dell 3010
Joseph Thompson ha scritto: On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:01:20 +0100 Adriano Verardo adriano.vera...@mail.com wrote: Do you know how to reliably dd an usb key under win7 ? adriano Win32DiskImager seems to be the usual recommendation in my experience. I'm afraid I can't vouch for its reliability, though. http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ joe Thank you a lot, Joe. Win32DiskImager is 10x+ faster than dd/pump and pretty smart but the final result is exactly the same. adriano
Re: [9fans] usbinstamd64 on Dell 3010
final result is exactly the same. i blame the usb driver. i hope to get some time to look at it today. - erik
Re: [9fans] usbinstamd64 on Dell 3010
erik quanstrom ha scritto: final result is exactly the same. i blame the usb driver. i hope to get some time to look at it today. - erik I'm observing that, with different fresh usb keys and writing tools, the error is (almost) always the same. A long long time ago I had a similar behaviour with the driver of a DEC-RL-02-like disk, due to a my mistake in the calculus of physical sector/track. That driver worked fine for 1+ years till the first access to sectors over a given (I don't remember ..) address. adriano
[9fans] usbinstamd64 on Dell 3010
Hi, all The same usbinstamd64 (image and physical USB key) on both DELL 3010 and ASUS H61M-K boot regularly till the root is from (il, local)[local!#S/sdu0/fs/ -B 1]: message. On CR confirm crashes saying connect ... boot: can't connect to file server: '#S/sdu0/fs' does not exist IMHO the quality of the USB key could be an issue. After a lot of attempts with very new keys of different brand/size, the same image on the 3010 the boot reaches the init: starting /bin/rc point. Then 10+ minutes of silence, a message too fast to be catched with a camera, and and a 1+ hour black screen. adriano
Re: [9fans] usbinstamd64 on Dell 3010
After a lot of attempts with very new keys of different brand/size, the same image on the 3010 the boot reaches the init: starting /bin/rc point. Then 10+ minutes of silence, a message too fast to be catched with a camera, and and a 1+ hour black screen. well that's discouraging. the most likely issue is some vga snafu. does ^T^Tr work? - erik
Re: [9fans] usbinstamd64 on Dell 3010
erik quanstrom ha scritto: After a lot of attempts with very new keys of different brand/size, the same image on the 3010 the boot reaches the init: starting /bin/rc point. Then 10+ minutes of silence, a message too fast to be catched with a camera, and and a 1+ hour black screen. well that's discouraging. the most likely issue is some vga snafu. does ^T^Tr work? - erik :-( With another key (same image) all proceed till the choice of the mouse. After the CR, the endless black screen again. ASAP I'll try ^T^Tr an let you know. Some of the delay (usually than 10 minutes) is due to DHCP. I've no DHCP here but probably the problem is not the DHCP. No news about ASUS H61M-K. I'll let you know ASAP Any recent changes in the usbinstamd64 image ? adriano
Re: [9fans] usbinstamd64 on Dell 3010
Yes, a few minutes after the CR for mouse selection [USB], ^T^Tr reboots the machine. so the ^T^Tr takes a few minutes to take effect? - erik
Re: [9fans] usbinstamd64 on Dell 3010
erik quanstrom ha scritto: Yes, a few minutes after the CR for mouse selection [USB], ^T^Tr reboots the machine. so the ^T^Tr takes a few minutes to take effect? - erik no, it is quite immediate == a few seconds to see the BIOS boot messages adriano
Re: [9fans] usbinstamd64 on Dell 3010
[568 files] On Sun Feb 16 13:21:50 EST 2014, adriano.vera...@mail.com wrote: erik quanstrom ha scritto: Yes, a few minutes after the CR for mouse selection [USB], ^T^Tr reboots the machine. so the ^T^Tr takes a few minutes to take effect? - erik no, it is quite immediate == a few seconds to see the BIOS boot messages i would diagnose this as most likely an issue with vga. your kernel is clearly running, and receiving interrupts. if you could try interrupting the boot loader by hitting the space bar a few times just after selecting the default boot option. then enter user=none boot this should disable video, and we can see if that is indeed the issue. it could be as simple as your monitor and the vesa bios not coming together on a video mode. - erik
Re: [9fans] usbinstamd64 on Dell 3010
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:01:20 +0100 Adriano Verardo adriano.vera...@mail.com wrote: Do you know how to reliably dd an usb key under win7 ? adriano Win32DiskImager seems to be the usual recommendation in my experience. I'm afraid I can't vouch for its reliability, though. http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ joe
