Le 19/08/2016 à 11:43, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Any _decent_ BIOS should ignore the partition table. It is none of its
business.
Yep. But there seems to be the tendency to install MBR code which
extents the BIOS by looking at the partition table and hop onto the
x86 cod
Hi,
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Any _decent_ BIOS should ignore the partition table. It is none of its
> business.
Yep. But there seems to be the tendency to install MBR code which
extents the BIOS by looking at the partition table and hop onto the
x86 code at the start of the partition marked by th
Le 18/08/2016 à 21:45, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
i wrote:
Let's hope the USB stick still boots via BIOS and EFI ...
It boots via any decent BIOS.
That would be the more likely candidate for failure, because the BIOS
hops on the x86 code in the MBR of which the partit
Thanks to all who replied (or read my original post), the problem is resolved.
I followed the instructions in Thomas Schmitt's first reply, and things just
worked.
I need to try to puzzle out what I did differently the first time--I do know
one
difference, I was trying to make a logical instea
Hi,
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Fdisk [...] calls the system call to tell the
> kernel to re-read the partition table
Ah yes. That's plausible. With my previous Linux i would have had to
unplug and re-plug the stick. But Debian 8 noticed the new partition
without that:
$ ls -l /dev/sdc*
brw-rw-
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 20:57:33 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> $ /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc
> ...
> Command (m for help): n
> Select (default p): p
> Partition number (3,4, default 3): 3
> First sector (505856-3915775, default 505856):
> Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (505856-3
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 19:43:10 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 18/08/2016 à 18:17, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit :
> >Is there any way to add another partition after copying the the DVD-1 install
> >image to the pendrive?
>
> Sure. Just use any partitioning tool as long as it does not choke on
>
Le 18/08/2016 à 20:57, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :
$ /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc
...
Command (m for help): n
Select (default p): p
Partition number (3,4, default 3): 3
First sector (505856-3915775, default 505856):
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (505856-3915775, default 3915775):
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 19:43:10 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 18/08/2016 à 18:17, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit :
> >Is there any way to add another partition after copying the the DVD-1 install
> >image to the pendrive?
>
> Sure. Just use any partitioning tool as long as it does not choke on th
Hi,
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'll characterize those as, generally, partition the USB stick, then add the
> installer image (and, iiuc, you have to use a different install image than
> the DVD-1 .iso.) and a different procedure.
The installer ISOs are supposed to be put on the base device of t
Le 18/08/2016 à 18:17, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit :
Is there any way to add another partition after copying the the DVD-1 install
image to the pendrive?
Sure. Just use any partitioning tool as long as it does not choke on the
invalid layout of the partition table (the two partitions overlap an
On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 12:17:28 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there any way to add another partition after copying the the DVD-1 install
> image to the pendrive?
>
> I found subchapter 4.3. of the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide:
> "Preparing
> Files for USB Memory Stick Booting"
Is there any way to add another partition after copying the the DVD-1 install
image to the pendrive?
I found subchapter 4.3. of the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide: "Preparing
Files for USB Memory Stick Booting"
(https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch04s03.html.en) and tried to
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