On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 6:56 PM Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > kaye n wrote: > > Using GParted, I created an MS-DOS partition table and formatted the USB > > stick in fat32. > > This is not necessary and will be overwritten by your next step: > > > sudo cp debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-standard.iso /dev/sdb > > sync > > This is a correct procedure and is supposed to do what is needed. > The fact that booting works confirms that you did it right. > > > stuck in a black terminal-like screen where it says, I/O error, etc. > > Maybe your USB stick is not good. > Do you get i/o errors when you read the whole stick by: > > dd bs=1M if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null > > (Depending on size and speed of the stick this can last long. > If your dd is young enough you get entertaining progress messages by > adding two more options: > > dd bs=1M if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null status=progress oflag=dsync > ) > > If the stick is not plain bad, then you will have to show the messages > which you see when booting gets stuck. Either as hand-copied text or > as screen photo which you upload to some site like pastebin.com. In > the latter case post a link to your uploaded photo. > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > > When I try to enter the live Debian, I get the terminal-like screen with this message: user@debian:~# [ 41.896110] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 The installer seems to run fine although I did not proceed with the installation because I still want a usb stick that has a working Live Debian. Thank you
