preparing dsl on usb, but no usb stick recognized
Forum: USB booting
Topic: preparing dsl on usb, but no usb stick recognized
started by: fez
Posted by fez on Dec. 06 2004,07:23
Hi @ all. Discovered DSL a few days ago. It's a great distro. Lean and sexy. The perfect system to boot my computer at work. Unfortunately the hd is secured by SafeGuard Easy...So I try to install DSL on my usb stick with the help of this < How To >.
Problem:
Failing at 2.4. The system doesn't recognize my usb stick. I plug it in and cdrecord --scanbus only shows the cd-drive although all modules (mentioned in 2.3) are loaded.
dmesg says (after plug in):
| Code Sample |
| scsi singledevice 2 0 0 1 scsi singledevice 2 0 0 2 scsi singledevice 2 0 0 3 scsi singledevice 2 0 0 4 scsi singledevice 2 0 0 5 scsi singledevice 2 0 0 6 VFS:Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1) VFS:Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1) Unable to identifyy CD-Rom format sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ide0(3,1) FAT: bogus logical sector size 42652 VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on device 03:01 VFS: Can't find a valid HFX filesystem on device 03:01 usb.c: USB disconnected on device 00:1d.7-2 address 3 usb.c: new USB device 00:1d.7-2, assigned address 4 usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x126f/0x2168) is not claimed by any active driver |
Anyone's got a glue?
Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 06 2004,13:23
Sounds like your USB stick is not being recoginized as a USB Mass Storage Device.Try going to:
< http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/ >
and see if someone has gotten your model of USB stick to work with Linux
Posted by fez on Dec. 06 2004,14:43
Strange.Got no problems to mount my usb stick with other distros. Or do I get anything wrong?
Got a twinmos usb stick. And yes, it's < listet > on the recommended site (id: 0x126f:0x2168). It should work.
Posted by fez on Dec. 06 2004,19:11
Formated the stick with ext3. Exactly the same result, even| Code Sample |
| VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1). |
in dmesg.
lsmod:
| Code Sample |
| usb-uhci 21664 0 (unused) usbcore 57600 1 [ehci-hcd hid usb-storage usb-uhci] |
Posted by fez on Dec. 06 2004,19:57
Now I went back to fat16.Plugged in the stick before I booted from CD. Then I "insmoded" ehci-hcd.
Now I get following dmesg (also with some boot messages):
| Code Sample |
| sda: read capacity failed. sda: status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 current sd00:00: sns = 70 2 asc=3a ascq=0 sda: block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB sda: test wp failed, assume write enabled sda: i/o error: dev 08:00, sector 0 i/o error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table device busy for revalidation (usage=1) device 08:00 not ready i/o error: dev 08:00, sector 0 EFS: cannot read volume header ....something about ap..... pci: setting latency timer of device 00:1d.7 to 64 ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: intel corp. 82801db usb2 ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: irq 10, pci mem e0d85000 usb.c: new usb bus registered, assigned bus number 4 ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: enabled 64bit pci dma pci: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 00:1d.7 ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: usb 2.0 enabled, ehci 1.00, driver 2003-dec-29/2.4 usb.c: usb disconnect on device 00:1d.0-2 address 2 hub.c: usb hub found hub.c: 6 ports detected hub.c: new usb device 00:1d.7-2, assigned address 2 warning: usb mass storage data integrity not assured usb mass storage device found at 2 usb.c: deregistering driver usb-storage |
Still getting:
| Code Sample |
| mount: /dev/sda is not a valid block device |
when I mount sda (sda entry in fstab exists).
And cdrecord --scanbus gets me the same output than before.
Posted by fez on Dec. 07 2004,20:04
Now it works. Already put dsl on it.Solved the problem by taking my own Laptop (ceap, crappy elitegroup notebook) instead of the Laptop I got at work (hp nc8000).