On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Frederic Muller fred@cm17.com wrote:
On 07/30/2015 09:00 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Frederic Muller fred@cm17.com wrote:
On a sidenote livecd-to-disk didn't work as the MBA didn't see the stick. dd however did work and booted.
Those seem contradictory. The stick is a block device. In order for dd to use it, it had to show up the same as for livecd-iso-to-disk.
Gparted however saw a 16GB stick instead of 4GB.
Sounds suspiciously like counterfeit flash.
So I formatted afterwards because I used the flash for something else and it showed a hpfs+ partition (using dd). I need to have a look at the livecd gparted view (which is then 4GB - but I think it is very different) but I was also very surprised by the whole stuff. Gparted stated that their was a problem with the block size (IIRC) which was 512 at one place and 2048 at another place...
Flash will report a logical sector size of 512 bytes and fib about physical sector size of 512 bytes also. Optical media has a sector size of 2048 bytes, and the ISO image contains an ISO 9660 file system so the terminology may just be getting confused between the actual flash as a physical device and the fs that's on it.
*shrug*