Having problems formatting usb stick

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calle3

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I wont to multiboot E2 image on a usb stick.... and I had it to work... but it was very unstabel. I thought it was a poor stick.

But i always had trouble formating my stick... I get errors. Such as... " couldnt create root direktory" and " couldnt read file size" in telnet!!

I have tried 4 gb and 8 gb sticks... I have just bought a new 4 gb Kingston stick... but same results!!!

Have tried formatting the stick with Paragon Partition Manager... I got the new stick running that way... but the stick seems VERY slow.

Here is the commands I use in telnet:

I have deleted the partitions with fdisk and created 2 new ones sdb1 on 1048 mb and sdb2 on the rest and saved with command w.
I took the stick in/out the box to be sure. then :

umount /dev/sdb1
mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb1.... but i get errors herr

if I sometimes am lucky to be able to formate it... i am not able to mount it... with the command mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 ( I have made i folder with ftp called sdb1 in mnt/

I get another errors here!!

what is my problem ??? I have tried several different guides from here with no luck!!
 
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moesafwat

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faced the same problem

I faced same problem yesterday after i installed tha latest after i upgraded the flash image to 11694, so i downgraded it to NLB 9580 and the telnet worked fine by showing cuberevo> instead of -SH3-# that it was showing with the NLB 11694, and i was able to format again.
My advise to you is to flash NLB 9580 and follow link provided above.
Hope that help.
 
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compufunk

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Are you sure that you are attempting to format the correct device (/dev/sdb1)?

You haven't mentioned whether or not you have a harddrive installed, or what image you are running in flash.

There is usually no need to mess around with partitioning. Unless you have a particular use for multiple partitions, I wouldn't bother. You can use the whole disk.

You can easily do the whole formatting and image extraction process on a PC running Linux. Use a live CD if you dont want to install Linux.
 
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japoguapo

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calle3 said:
I wont to multiboot E2 image on a usb stick.... and I had it to work... but it was very unstabel. I thought it was a poor stick.

But i always had trouble formating my stick... I get errors. Such as... " couldnt create root direktory" and " couldnt read file size" in telnet!!

I have tried 4 gb and 8 gb sticks... I have just bought a new 4 gb Kingston stick... but same results!!!

Have tried formatting the stick with Paragon Partition Manager... I got the new stick running that way... but the stick seems VERY slow.

Here is the commands I use in telnet:

I have deleted the partitions with fdisk and created 2 new ones sdb1 on 1048 mb and sdb2 on the rest and saved with command w.
I took the stick in/out the box to be sure. then :

umount /dev/sdb1
mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb1.... but i get errors herr

if I sometimes am lucky to be able to formate it... i am not able to mount it... with the command mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 ( I have made i folder with ftp called sdb1 in mnt/

I get another errors here!!

what is my problem ??? I have tried several different guides from here with no luck!!
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Hi mate
log this command on telnet
"mount" and post the result.

Regards
 
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calle3

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japoguapo said:
Hi mate
log this command on telnet
"mount" and post the result.

Regards
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ok... done that.. heres result:

rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type squashfs (ro)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
none on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
none on /mnt type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/mtdblock4 on /var type jffs2 (rw)
none on /tmp/mqueue type mqueue (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
tmpfs on/dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/sda2 on /media type ext2 (rw)
 
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calle3

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compufunk said:
Are you sure that you are attempting to format the correct device (/dev/sdb1)?

You haven't mentioned whether or not you have a harddrive installed, or what image you are running in flash.

There is usually no need to mess around with partitioning. Unless you have a particular use for multiple partitions, I wouldn't bother. You can use the whole disk.

You can easily do the whole formatting and image extraction process on a PC running Linux. Use a live CD if you dont want to install Linux.
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Yes Iam sure... that iam using the right commands:)

I have Sifteam r11673 in flash.. with hdd installed.

My plan was to have 4 partitions on the stick.. sdb1-sdb4... where I want to use sdb2 for swap... and sdb1,sdb3,sdb4.. for different E2 images using multiboot!!

Sometimes I managed to get an E2 image on sdb1 and sdb 2... but had lots of trouble with unstability... therefor I tried formatting and reinstall another image.... but got those errors!!
 
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calle3

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moesafwat said:
I faced same problem yesterday after i installed tha latest after i upgraded the flash image to 11694, so i downgraded it to NLB 9580 and the telnet worked fine by showing cuberevo> instead of -SH3-# that it was showing with the NLB 11694, and i was able to format again.
My advise to you is to flash NLB 9580 and follow link provided above.
Hope that help.
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ok... I will try that...
but has it to by the NLB 9580 image.... its a rather old one from june 2009... isnt there any newer one that works??
 
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japoguapo

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calle3 said:
ok... done that.. heres result:

rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type squashfs (ro)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
none on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
none on /mnt type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/mtdblock4 on /var type jffs2 (rw)
none on /tmp/mqueue type mqueue (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
tmpfs on/dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/sda2 on /media type ext2 (rw)
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your device is on /dev/sda2 not on /dev/sdb1

Regards.
 
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calle3

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japoguapo said:
log this on telnet :
fdisk /dev/sdb

and post the result.
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Image for Cuberevo
cuberevo login: root
Password:
System bootup in progress - please wait
[Disconnect bypassed -- root login allowed.]
[SifTeam]$ fdisk /dev/sdb

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 4002 MB, 4002910208 bytes
124 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7688 * 512 = 3936256 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 267 1026317 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 802 1016 826460 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 268 534 1026348 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 535 801 1026348 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Command (m for help):
 
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calle3

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I have now tried ti install NLB 11102_fix in flash.... and if I take the stick in /out before formatting.. I manage to do it. But I have now tried 3 different E2 images and while unpacking in telnet ( tar ) i get som errors:
tar : write error input/output error
tar : invalid tar magic
 
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bellejt

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I have exactly the same problem.Cannot use the stick anymore to put E2 on because system always says : this usb device seems to be used as recording media .
Even if I unmount,I cannot format the stick.Maybe somebody can place a backup under windows from the stick.
 
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