Hi, Kent West wrote: > fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdc: No medium found
So we really have one bad piece of hardware. The division of responsibilities between device and its data content makes it very unlikely that the ISO content is to blame. Maybe it died from the mere effort to store 2 GB in one sweep. > Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type > /dev/sdd1 * 0 4173823 4173824 2G 0 Empty > /dev/sdd2 1540 2371 832 416K ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) That's what i see in debian-live-9.2.0-amd64-cinnamon.iso, too. So far this piece of hardware seems ok and bears the data which constitute the partition table of the ISO image (and much more). I am quite sure that fdisk would remove both partitions and then create new ones as you like. To make it a safe bet i just tried with a copy of the ISO image. Deleted both partitions and then created a single one from block 2048 to the end the image. Result: Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type test.iso1 2048 4174463 4172416 2G 83 Linux > Loading /live/initrd.img-4.0.9-4-amd64... > and then there's a very brief flash of a line that I can almost imagine I > see the word "failed" in, and then it returns to the "Main Menu". We will need advice about how to get to see that final line. After you verified that you get the stick into a conventional state, you should again dd the ISO onto it, verify the MD5 (matches only before first boot attempt), and check whether it still fails. This will not totally outrule hardware problems but that's the best we can do before asking cluelessly at debian-live. Have a nice day :) Thomas
