[LUNA] Issues w/ UBCD ....

[Tuxman]

usb-imagewriter  is in the repos for Ubuntu.
UNetbootin is still around  http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/



On 05/08/2015 08:16 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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> .... I am trying to prep a USB UBCD stick for use in checking out a 
> box I am building. I followed the instructions attached, from UBCD 
> ISO, w/ (some of) following results, from yesterday:
> (following from within fdisk):
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> Command (m for help): p
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> Disk /dev/sdg: 3878 MB, 3878678528 bytes
> 120 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders, total 7575544 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x2c6b7369
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>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdg1   *        2048     7575543     3786748    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
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> Command (m for help): m
> Command action
>    a   toggle a bootable flag
>    b   edit bsd disklabel
>    c   toggle the dos compatibility flag
>    d   delete a partition
>    l   list known partition types
>    m   print this menu
>    n   add a new partition
>    o   create a new empty DOS partition table
>    p   print the partition table
>    q   quit without saving changes
>    s   create a new empty Sun disklabel
>    t   change a partition's system id
>    u   change display/entry units
>    v   verify the partition table
>    w   write table to disk and exit
>    x   extra functionality (experts only)
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> Command (m for help): w
> The partition table has been altered!
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> Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
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> WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x
> partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional
> information.
> Syncing disks.
> [root at Q6600:/etc, Thu May 07, 03:06 PM] 1095 # mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdg1
> mkfs.vfat 3.0.9 (31 Jan 2010)
> [root at Q6600:/etc, Thu May 07, 03:07 PM] 1096 #
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> [root at Q6600:/etc, Thu May 07, 03:09 PM] 1105 # !1013
> dd if=/home/ISOs/UBCD/ubcd533/ubcd/tools/linux/ubcd2usb/mbr.bin 
> of=/dev/sdg
> 0+1 records in
> 0+1 records out
> 440 bytes (440 B) copied, 0.0221471 s, 19.9 kB/s
> [root at Q6600:/etc, Thu May 07, 03:09 PM] 1106 #
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> [root at Q6600:/etc, Thu May 07, 03:29 PM] 1143 # !1070
> /home/ISOs/UBCD/ubcd533/ubcd/tools/linux/ubcd2usb/syslinux -f -d 
> /boot/syslinux  /dev/sdg1
> /home/ISOs/UBCD/ubcd533/ubcd/tools/linux/ubcd2usb/syslinux: no 
> previous syslinux boot sector found
> [root at Q6600:/etc, Thu May 07, 03:30 PM] 1144 #
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> The fdisk on my system (see below) behaved slightly differently from 
> that referenced in the UBCD readme file (from Debian), but I think 
> everything got done OK. When I try to boot from the USB stick, it says 
> 'No OS found to boot from' or something to that effect. I have tried 2 
> different USB sticks this week, same from both, wouldn't boot. Target 
> box uses a Supermicro H8SCM mbd & AMD C32 4256EE CPU, if that matters. 
> Any clues appreciated :-) ....
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> [root at Q6600:/etc, Fri May 08, 08:11 AM] 1165 # uname -a
> Linux Q6600 2.6.35.14-106.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 23 13:07:52 UTC 
> 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [root at Q6600:/etc, Fri May 08, 08:11 AM] 1166 #
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