cloned sd card is not booting

[JD]

Install liveusb-creator-3.12.0-1.fc20.noarch.rpm

and create a launch icon for it on the desktop (if you  like)
and launch it from there.
It will prompt you for the source of the ISO file
and will ask you for the destination, if there is more than
one usb drive target.

I have used it without fail !!!


On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> This is a Fedora arm problem, but probably more experience with dd and sd
> cards here...
>
> SO I boot my Cubieboard2 from microSD.  I grabbed 8 16GB cards from the bin
> at the MicroCenter checkout counter.  They work fine for building F21 arm
> boots, but I am getting far enough into the process that if I do something
> wrong, I don't want to go all the way back to the beginning.  I rather clone
> the card, play around, and soforth. So I tried using:
>
> sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror; sync
>
> the target sd card has been previously use.  The copy fails in use as
> follows:
>
>          Mounting Configuration File System...
> [  OK  ] Mounted Configuration File System.
> [  OK  ] Found device
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/1dc878de-92d2-4a66-b352-f055a32473b9.
> [  OK  ] Started dracut initqueue hook.
> [  OK  ] Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen.
> [  OK  ] Reached target Paths.
> [  OK  ] Reached target Basic System.
>          Starting dracut pre-mount hook...
> [  OK  ] Reached target Remote File Systems (Pre).
> [  OK  ] Reached target Remote File Systems.
>          Starting File System Check on
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/1dc8...f055a32473b9...
> [   13.911063] systemd-fsck[368]: _/: The filesystem size (according to the
> superblock) is 3587707 blocks
> [  OK  ] Started dracut pre-mount hook.
> [   13.919598] systemd-fsck[368]: The physical size of the device is 3548795
> blocks
> [   13.937109] systemd-fsck[368]: Either the superblock or the partition
> table is likely to be corrupt!
> [   13.944962] systemd-fsck[368]: _/: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck
> MANUALLY.
> [   13.950853] systemd-fsck[368]: (i.e., without -a or -p options)
> [  OK  ] Started File System Check on
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/1dc87...2-f055a32473b9.
>          Mounting /sysroot...
> [   14.483857] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
> [   14.571964] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p3): bad geometry: block count 3587707
> exceeds size of device (3548795 blocks)
> [FAILED] Failed to mount /sysroot.
> See 'systemctl status sysroot.mount' for details.
> [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Initrd Root File System.
> [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Reload Configuration from the Real Root.
> [  OK  ] Stopped dracut pre-pivot and cleanup hook.
> [  OK  ] Stopped target Initrd Default Target.
> [  OK  ] Stopped dracut mount hook.
> [  OK  ] Reached target Initrd File Systems.
> [  OK  ] Stopped target Basic System.
> [  OK  ] Stopped target System Initialization.
>          Starting Emergency Shel
> Generating "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt"
>
>
> Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue.
> Type "journalctl" to view system logs.
> You might want to save "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" to a USB stick or
> /boot
> after mounting them and attach it to a bug report.
>
>
> :/#
>
> =======================================================
>
> I put the card back in my build system and looked at it with Gparted which
> shows the whole drive as unallocated, even though the system successfully
> mounted /boot (but not /).
>
> So the question is:  HOw better can I clone the card?  SDFormatter in
> Windows is one suggestion, but I don't want to have to jump over to the
> family XP system.
>
> thanks
>
>
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