Hi everyone. I am having trouble booting from usb. I am trying to recover data from a notebook with windows. So i think use a live linux from opensuse. And perform the following steps: 1) download a opensuse liveCD, (3 opensuse versions and others) 2) install the image with imagewriter to a usb with a SD memory. 3) go to failed notebook select boot from usb 4) Grub menu works fine. 5) I select start live..... 6) The system cant boot: mount /run/overlay/squashfs_container: wrong fs type on /dev/loop0 mount /run/overlay/rootfsbase: special device /LiveOS/rootfs.img does not exist. system halted
Y try on another notebook (that work well) with the similar result. dracut: FATAL: failed to mount live ISO dracut: Refusing to continue
I need touch some on bios? live TW & live Leap are broken? Some special command to grup is required? Or any other idea or clue?
Best Regards Christian
On 27/02/2021 19.21, Christian Schmitz wrote:
Hi everyone. I am having trouble booting from usb. I am trying to recover data from a notebook with windows. So i think use a live linux from opensuse. And perform the following steps:
- download a opensuse liveCD, (3 opensuse versions and others)
You can only install one. Which did you try?
I would recommend this one for rescue work:
- install the image with imagewriter to a usb with a SD memory.
an usb stick?
imagewriter on linux or windows?
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Create_a_Live_USB_stick_using_Windows
- go to failed notebook select boot from usb
- Grub menu works fine.
- I select start live.....
- The system cant boot: mount /run/overlay/squashfs_container: wrong fs type on /dev/loop0 mount /run/overlay/rootfsbase: special device /LiveOS/rootfs.img does not
exist. system halted
Y try on another notebook (that work well) with the similar result. dracut: FATAL: failed to mount live ISO dracut: Refusing to continue
I'm guessing the copy to usb stick was not done right.
But just in case, if your computer has both USB 3 and 2 ports and you tried on usb3, now try usb2.
On 2/27/21 4:02 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 27/02/2021 19.21, Christian Schmitz wrote:
Hi everyone. I am having trouble booting from usb. I am trying to recover data from a notebook with windows. So i think use a live linux from opensuse. And perform the following steps:
- download a opensuse liveCD, (3 opensuse versions and others)
You can only install one. Which did you try?
I would recommend this one for rescue work:
- install the image with imagewriter to a usb with a SD memory.
an usb stick?
imagewriter on linux or windows?
I recently burned a downloaded OS using "Flash Image Writer" on Mageia and it works perfectly. I assume this is the same program that was described. --doug
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Create_a_Live_USB_stick_using_Windows
- go to failed notebook select boot from usb
- Grub menu works fine.
- I select start live.....
- The system cant boot: mount /run/overlay/squashfs_container: wrong fs type on /dev/loop0 mount /run/overlay/rootfsbase: special device /LiveOS/rootfs.img does not
exist. system halted
Y try on another notebook (that work well) with the similar result. dracut: FATAL: failed to mount live ISO dracut: Refusing to continue
I'm guessing the copy to usb stick was not done right.
But just in case, if your computer has both USB 3 and 2 ports and you tried on usb3, now try usb2.
Dear Carlos, Is a sd to usb adaptator with a 4g, i perform the SD writing from linux tumbleweed. I know that i can install only one, but after fail to boot, i back to the first computer and try another with another image, even try an old image found on my disk.
I will try usb2 vs usb 3
Another question, i use "imagewriter" program ( suggested for opensuse) maybe i need try use DD tool
Thanks to all and best regards Christian
On Saturday 27 February 2021 18:02:39 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 27/02/2021 19.21, Christian Schmitz wrote:
Hi everyone. I am having trouble booting from usb. I am trying to recover data from a notebook with windows. So i think use a live linux from opensuse. And perform the following steps:
- download a opensuse liveCD, (3 opensuse versions and others)
You can only install one. Which did you try?
I would recommend this one for rescue work:
- install the image with imagewriter to a usb with a SD memory.
an usb stick?
imagewriter on linux or windows?
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Create_a_Live_USB_stick_using_Windows
- go to failed notebook select boot from usb
- Grub menu works fine.
- I select start live.....
- The system cant boot: mount /run/overlay/squashfs_container: wrong fs type on /dev/loop0 mount /run/overlay/rootfsbase: special device /LiveOS/rootfs.img does
not exist. system halted
Y try on another notebook (that work well) with the similar result. dracut: FATAL: failed to mount live ISO dracut: Refusing to continue
I'm guessing the copy to usb stick was not done right.
But just in case, if your computer has both USB 3 and 2 ports and you tried on usb3, now try usb2.
On 01/03/2021 13.35, Christian Schmitz wrote:
Dear Carlos, Is a sd to usb adaptator with a 4g, i perform the SD writing from linux tumbleweed. I know that i can install only one, but after fail to boot, i back to the first computer and try another with another image, even try an old image found on my disk.
sd to usb adaptor? Maybe that is the issue. Why don't you try a plain usb flash stick?
https://images.app.goo.gl/brHMP5AyiUD9CaYa9
I will try usb2 vs usb 3
Another question, i use "imagewriter" program ( suggested for opensuse) maybe i need try use DD tool
I have never personally used "imagewriter", so I can not comment on it.
Having Linux available, I always use "dd", but I have tried a plain "cp" and it works - as long as the destination is the raw device, not a filesystem.
* Carlos E.R. robin.listas@gmx.es [03-01-21 08:04]:
On 01/03/2021 13.35, Christian Schmitz wrote:
Dear Carlos, Is a sd to usb adaptator with a 4g, i perform the SD writing from linux tumbleweed. I know that i can install only one, but after fail to boot, i back to the first computer and try another with another image, even try an old image found on my disk.
sd to usb adaptor? Maybe that is the issue. Why don't you try a plain usb flash stick?
I have used cf and sd cards in a cardreader successfully instead of a "stick". connection wise they appear to the system the same, as a storage disk.
https://images.app.goo.gl/brHMP5AyiUD9CaYa9
I will try usb2 vs usb 3
Another question, i use "imagewriter" program ( suggested for opensuse) maybe i need try use DD tool
I have never personally used "imagewriter", so I can not comment on it.
I have successfully. but I do not remember the distro used.
Having Linux available, I always use "dd", but I have tried a plain "cp" and it works - as long as the destination is the raw device, not a filesystem.
-- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)
On 2021-03-01 14:21, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I have successfully. but I do not remember the distro used.
I use dd and imagewriter regularly for several distros. I'm definitely a cli guy but I really like imagewriter.
Distros lately written with imagewriter and successfully booted as far as I remember:
ubuntustudio-20.04-dvd-amd64.iso kali-linux-2020.2-live-amd64.iso openSUSE-Tumbleweed-KDE-Live-x86_64-Current.iso openSUSE-Leap-15.2-KDE-Live-x86_64-Build31.105-Media.iso openSUSE-Leap-15.2-DVD-x86_64.iso ubuntustudio-20.10-beta-dvd-amd64.iso ubuntustudio-20.10-dvd-amd64.iso Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-33-1.2.iso Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-Rawhide-20201121.n.0.iso openSUSE-Leap-15.2-KDE-Live-x86_64-Media.iso
Bengt Gördén composed on 2021-03-01 14:59 (UTC+0100):
I use dd and imagewriter regularly for several distros. I'm definitely a cli guy but I really like imagewriter.
+1
However, more often than not, all I download before an installation is linux and initrd (the NET installation versions), which I have Grub load (from custom.cfg) when I want to begin an installation. This way I'm only downloading what's actually going to be installed, and not messing with stick or OM writing.
Dear All: Finally seem that SD card is broken. I found another SD that already have a opensuse live and boot very well. I suspect of this because after read you i start test with a diff /dev/sdd opensuse.... .iso and get : "binary files are differents"
Thanks you to all. Christian Schmitz
On Monday 01 March 2021 23:17:27 Felix Miata wrote:
Bengt Gördén composed on 2021-03-01 14:59 (UTC+0100):
I use dd and imagewriter regularly for several distros. I'm definitely a cli guy but I really like imagewriter.
+1
However, more often than not, all I download before an installation is linux and initrd (the NET installation versions), which I have Grub load (from custom.cfg) when I want to begin an installation. This way I'm only downloading what's actually going to be installed, and not messing with stick or OM writing.
On 02/03/2021 12.37, Christian Schmitz wrote:
Dear All: Finally seem that SD card is broken. I found another SD that already have a opensuse live and boot very well. I suspect of this because after read you i start test with a diff /dev/sdd opensuse.... .iso and get : "binary files are differents"
That may be non significant.
I know that, for instance, the XFCE self modifies on the first boot. It adds a writable partition. I don't know about the Gnome/KDE lives.
The DVD one should not modify itself, but you have to make sure you compare the correct number of bytes:
Telcontar:/data/storage_b/Isos/Leap/15.2 # cmp openSUSE-Leap-15.2-DVD-x86_64.iso /dev/sde cmp: EOF on openSUSE-Leap-15.2-DVD-x86_64.iso after byte 4287627264, in line 17693273 Telcontar:/data/storage_b/Isos/Leap/15.2 #
I know that the stick is correct, I have used it on my computers.
Instead:
Telcontar:/data/storage_b/Isos/Leap/15.2 # cmp --bytes=$(wc -c < openSUSE-Leap-15.2-DVD-x86_64.iso) /dev/sde openSUSE-Leap-15.2-DVD-x86_64.iso Telcontar:/data/storage_b/Isos/Leap/15.2 #
succeeds :-)
Carlos E. R. composed on 2021-03-02 13:28 (UTC+0100):
I know that, for instance, the XFCE self modifies on the first boot. It adds a writable partition.
Adds where? This is big news! I've never heard of a DE performing partitioning or formatting, much less doing so automatically.
On 02/03/2021 20.10, Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2021-03-02 13:28 (UTC+0100):
I know that, for instance, the XFCE self modifies on the first boot. It adds a writable partition.
Adds where? This is big news! I've never heard of a DE performing partitioning or formatting, much less doing so automatically.
Old stuff everybody knows ;-P
On the USB stick. Repurposes all the free space at the end of it, so that you can save files on the desktop, even install new rpms.
Carlos E. R. composed on 2021-03-02 22:20 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2021-03-02 13:28 (UTC+0100):
I know that, for instance, the XFCE self modifies on the first boot. It adds a writable partition.
Adds where? This is big news! I've never heard of a DE performing partitioning or formatting, much less doing so automatically.
Old stuff everybody knows ;-P
Obviously not everybody. Lots of people are not XFCE users.
On the USB stick. Repurposes all the free space at the end of it, so that you can save files on the desktop, even install new rpms.
While a handy result, I don't like the idea of anything /automatically/ writing anything to a partition table.
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On Tuesday, 2021-03-02 at 21:18 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2021-03-02 22:20 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2021-03-02 13:28 (UTC+0100):
I know that, for instance, the XFCE self modifies on the first boot. It adds a writable partition.
Adds where? This is big news! I've never heard of a DE performing partitioning or formatting, much less doing so automatically.
Old stuff everybody knows ;-P
Obviously not everybody. Lots of people are not XFCE users.
It is not related at all to XFCE or to any desktop. It is more low level and runs earlier. I was attempting a pun at you but you didn't see it :-)
It is done on the XFCE image and not the others, because the XFCE image is not an installer, and its purpose is to be used as a live sytem for rescue usage, where writing things is very useful.
On the USB stick. Repurposes all the free space at the end of it, so that you can save files on the desktop, even install new rpms.
While a handy result, I don't like the idea of anything /automatically/ writing anything to a partition table.
Well...
As I said, it is a known feature of the rescue image when run on an usb stick. I don't know where it is documented.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)
* Felix Miata mrmazda@earthlink.net [03-02-21 21:19]:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2021-03-02 22:20 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2021-03-02 13:28 (UTC+0100):
I know that, for instance, the XFCE self modifies on the first boot. It adds a writable partition.
Adds where? This is big news! I've never heard of a DE performing partitioning or formatting, much less doing so automatically.
Old stuff everybody knows ;-P
Obviously not everybody. Lots of people are not XFCE users.
On the USB stick. Repurposes all the free space at the end of it, so that you can save files on the desktop, even install new rpms.
While a handy result, I don't like the idea of anything /automatically/ writing anything to a partition table.
iianm, currently creating an image on a usb device from an iso creates an installation on the usb device and all that I have created are upgradable and can have configurations and new files written to them and I do not have on with an xfce image on it. ** it is not xfce exclusive capability **
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