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 1NMuz5-0004KU-PV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:00:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18BF0E0874; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com (mail-pw0-f47.google.com [209.85.160.47]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C6BE0874 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi1 with SMTP id 1so4123423pwi.26 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:59:03 -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=khoohfrUQRHsHqhl5kAkivgOkwlfSD+4euQozmG26yQ=; b=x/W6/HqvMJKWmggcabQYpjJk20m0t8ArfSoPqi+sPB7tuHmYGdX3T/wmQLiN9VC6th g8o8fVSqxtvbkdXp7Dfp4mycHD8KR+MIFuXfIWHXhOgEPlba6XGCRw2K1+sKXxPn8Yox whT0L669m+FNc5ehOI3ilwBZm90eqiL8cAzpw= 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=UpjLWid9J9u5L0tQL5uxH2HC2QD0XlSL5I+fEc7SKvHHGS8udrHcoWyhQFuHB7IQYI xopqbVo0awc3bhzvk9BkmcmfuxKfuceoReBlsRaKQbjKZ0HjCGyDX+36Jl2Zw+DPCvHc R3cjxKbE2qg7Vt77p3cgeqvnbDKAsBN0zy/rI= 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 10.141.106.11 with SMTP id i11mr106254rvm.239.1261450742915; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:59:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10912211203y5e6acd2ib2b3c0fbb0e050cc@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10912181758q15cb100k87bb42634d799cee@mail.gmail.com> <20091219105915.1c9bc778@digimed.co.uk> <49bf44f10912190850x91498c0r397e6034d0454f9e@mail.gmail.com> <1261248443.17869.5.camel@centar> <49bf44f10912201356n4bdb055ave6a0253efdf7a239@mail.gmail.com> <20091220233005.GA25658@princeton.edu> <49bf44f10912210901s1613e10bo6b91839cf47a84e0@mail.gmail.com> <20091221183131.GA19697@princeton.edu> <49bf44f10912211203y5e6acd2ib2b3c0fbb0e050cc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:59:02 -0800 Message-ID: <49bf44f10912211859s2b5fc9acjce63625535ec3154@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: 10afb9eb-85e8-4d86-9718-9980265c774e X-Archives-Hash: f4c2ea9485a5d41c0bc70998b196e3db >>> New problem: Booted into DSLinux, my HD does not appear so I can't >>> wipe it. =A0blkid and fdisk -l only show the USB stick assigned to >>> /dev/sda which is how I accidentally wiped it in the first place. >>> I'll try another distro on the USB stick. > > DSLinux couldn't find my HD because it needs the "sata" boot parameter > explicitly passed. =A0However, after doing that it crashes while loading > the sata module. =A0This is discussed online with no solution presented. > >> If DSLinux is what I think it is, it may have been (on hindsight) >> rather obvious that it may not support the block device your system HD >> is on or the filesystem used. The DS, afterall, has fairly predictable >> hardware. >> >> Something like DBAN or SysResCD will have a better chance of >> supporting a wider array of hardware. > > The problem with those two is I need something that can install to the > HD after wiping it. =A0I also need something that can install on a 512MB > USB key since my 8GB key does not seem to be bootable. =A0DSLinux was a > flop as described above, so I'm downloading Puppy Linux now. =A0It's > about 100MB, and it has the "Puppy Universal Installer" which should > install to my HD. =A0Hopefully it fares better with my SATA hardware > than DSLinux did. > > Also, in case it helps anyone in the future, unetbootin has a very > annoying habit of failing to download the selected ISO, returning no > error, and in fact reporting installation success. =A0The symptom of > this is a boot menu with only "Default" available, which goes nowhere. > =A0The solution is to download the ISO manually and point unetbootin to > it. > > I'll report back with Puppy Linux results. Puppy Linux has wiped the HD and installed to /dev/sda3, but I can't get it to install GRUB to /dev/sda1. I get: I couldn't mount '/dev/sda1' read-write! Working on it.... - Grant