From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NM8Fe-0004pV-WA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:58:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96919E0863; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f199.google.com (mail-pz0-f199.google.com [209.85.222.199]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E605E0863 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so2674160pzk.10 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:57:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=SH+iJxMLSbEGctHsND8TS6CdRdnbRiLLhGCUkFKhZgc=; b=BDz577rlm7x5Xp5lR/JCN1ccdEc+EUCS5o4wFwO39RKrHRwVoQTYTF+sC9aQF+8xuS uYFR93HyDzKDnz758XnYhTnNOWD+K3xSdOs7SFPGcqnnzp2hXg39FpVyDR5EJPZDU2oN ulnam8c3LhaqV6AsskvuhJEeGdT7S2bNUDlVQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ovfGBzgWvBw0NkR4/3/YQL41RrtbLftBvtYaTkmvx5nXu9y/l7AgZ2igNM/sBJ2uTb V5iWRF59VkrbPb0ShYMoqYWSQMxXoOdtcenqNJtRCE9MtGLFxywb0KshnCB5Ie/4hiFm xyzAA8kK6oQZkTKYVeaLXK3HEB5LI4vD54HG0= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.141.88.4 with SMTP id q4mr3807909rvl.197.1261263469375; Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:57:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1261248443.17869.5.camel@centar> References: <49bf44f10912161049v3768a3f8m60dddbae4b8777b@mail.gmail.com> <15719e8b0912161154o6f634c9bk6b1f9e3f9204ac20@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10912180908x6fa39920k7048c718a16a018b@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10912181505h7993994h4bf342380654dbf6@mail.gmail.com> <4B2C3187.7060701@cox.net> <49bf44f10912181758q15cb100k87bb42634d799cee@mail.gmail.com> <20091219105915.1c9bc778@digimed.co.uk> <49bf44f10912190850x91498c0r397e6034d0454f9e@mail.gmail.com> <1261248443.17869.5.camel@centar> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:57:49 -0800 Message-ID: <49bf44f10912191457x1ea4f803rd63b1e39f65b125@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 1fccfb26-4072-445c-a221-2ec52e81a098 X-Archives-Hash: 2b4aa54edd5d514d1674f77539c8d689 >> > Does the USB stick still boot? It looks like you wiped the wrong >> device. >> >> Bingo, right as usual! =A0Apparently I wiped the USB stick. =A0I ran fdi= sk >> and mk2fs -j again (do I want journaling?) and reinstalled Damn Small >> Linux on the stick. =A0For some reason the laptop tell me "missing >> operating system" when I try to boot from the stick now. =A0I need to >> test it on other systems. > > Grant, > > Take a deep breath and hhink about what you're doing for a second. =A0Did > you just copy files to the stick and expect that it would boot? =A0It' > still needs a bootloader (LILO, GRUB, SYSLINUX, or whatever) in order to > load the OS on the stick. =A0Your dd wiped out *everything* I think unetbootin installs a bootloader. It worked when I did the above yesterday. - Grant > When you finally do get the stick to boot, run fdisk -l or blkid or > whatever and make sure your target disk is actually what you think it > is. > > Anyway might save you some time in the long run... maybe not.