Public bug reported: I'm using usb-imagewriter 0.1.3-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu Jaunty. When I tried to write an image, imagewriter issued the following command: ------ dd if=/home/scott/bin/install/iso/ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img of=/dev/sdb ------
Of course, writing to the device instead of the partition hosed my USB stick, forcing me to use fdisk to wipe everything and start over. GParted couldn't understand the stick; fdisk showed four partitions (instead of one as expected) and reported errors: ----- Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 2047 MB, 2047678976 bytes 63 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 3906 * 512 = 1999872 bytes Disk identifier: 0x8ef631df This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 ? 540844 1042316 979374166 66 Unknown Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(734, 123, 14) logical=(540843, 53, 21) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(120, 143, 6) logical=(1042315, 32, 22) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb2 ? 883091 1892906 1972168331 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(187, 180, 14) logical=(883090, 54, 52) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(784, 0, 13) logical=(793323, 43, 1) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb3 ? 839687 1339804 976730017 7d Unknown Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(252, 59, 46) logical=(839686, 2, 39) Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(139, 118, 4) logical=(240221, 51, 28) Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdb4 ? 1069986 1072116 4161550 6f Unknown Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(370, 101, 50) logical=(1069985, 6, 11) Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(10, 114, 13) logical=(1072115, 59, 44) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order ----- imagewriter should have used the following dd command: ----- dd if=/home/scott/bin/install/iso/ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img of=/dev/sdb1 ----- ** Affects: usb-imagewriter (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- imagewriter gives dd the wrong path and hoses the partition table https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414406 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs