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Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore

From David Griffith <dave@661.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore
Date 2017-02-01 17:40 +0100
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On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, David Griffith wrote:

> I followed those instruction and got the same results. I installed Wheezy on 
> a spare machine.  There I was able to create a writable flash drive installer 
> that installs Jessie.

Following up... The effect is exactly like what would happen if you delete 
initrd.gz from the thumb drive.

[    0.801766] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.7.5-20140531_083030-gandalf 04/01/2014
[    0.801930]  0000000000000000 ffffffff81514c11 ffffffff817054c8 ffff8800070b7ea0
[    0.802072]  ffffffff8151195e ffff880000000010 ffff8800070b7eb0 ffff8800070b7e50
[    0.802166]  ffff8800070b7ea0 ffff8800070b7eb8 0000000000000012 0000000000000001
[    0.802282] Call Trace:
[    0.802572]  [<ffffffff81514c11>] ? dump_stack+0x5d/0x78
[    0.802654]  [<ffffffff8151195e>] ? panic+0xc8/0x206
[    0.802734]  [<ffffffff819035a7>] ? mount_block_root+0x2a9/0x2b8
[    0.802788]  [<ffffffff811bae95>] ? SyS_mknod+0x185/0x210
[    0.802841]  [<ffffffff81903739>] ? prepare_namespace+0x133/0x169
[    0.802893]  [<ffffffff81903258>] ? kernel_init_freeable+0x1d7/0x1e1
[    0.802945]  [<ffffffff8190295e>] ? initcall_blacklist+0xb2/0xb2
[    0.802996]  [<ffffffff81507da0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[    0.803046]  [<ffffffff81507daa>] ? kernel_init+0xa/0xf0
[    0.803096]  [<ffffffff8151ad18>] ? ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
[    0.803146]  [<ffffffff81507da0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[    0.803506] Kernel Offset: 0x0 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff9fffffff)
[    0.803738] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

-- 
David Griffith
dave@661.org

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Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2017-02-01 10:10 +0100
  Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-02-01 10:30 +0100
    Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2017-02-01 17:10 +0100
      Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2017-02-01 17:40 +0100
        Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 21:40 +0100
      Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-02-01 22:00 +0100
        Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2017-02-02 01:40 +0100
          Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2017-02-02 02:20 +0100
          Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-02-02 13:00 +0100
  Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-02-01 10:40 +0100
  Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-02-02 13:40 +0100
    Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2017-02-03 06:10 +0100
      Re: Can't make writable USB thumbdrive installer anymore Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-02-03 14:50 +0100

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