So, I've been playing around with openSUSE 12.2 gnome in virtualbox on my windows HD because it's the only major linux distro I've never used. I decided to install it on my laptop after a few weeks using SUSE's imagewriter app. It installed fine but it doesn't like my hardware on my laptop (and it's generally been a pain in the ass to use) so I used the gparted live cd and wiped it off of my laptop HD. I tried installing the fedora 16 gnome live iso onto this flashdrive (after wiping it using the gparted app) and now it won't mount, isn't visible in gparted or anything. I'm assuming it doesn't have a partition table... I need to reformat it and try to get fstab to recognize it again.
I ran "sudo mount -a /dev/sdc" and got this:
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sudo mount -a /dev/sdc
[sudo] password for neruson:
mount: can't find /dev/sdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
I then ran "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices" and got this:
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[neruson@megatron ~]$ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
cat: /proc/bus/usb/devices: No such file or directory
contents of /etc/fstab:
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#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat Apr 14 16:02:28 2012
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
UUID=4b0d258f-3a31-4496-998b-ab123e323d76 / ext4 defau$
UUID=2311a36e-a587-4766-ac8f-6bce651d89c7 /home ext4 defau$
UUID=19537b68-19d3-4a4b-bd4c-ba9e8dd957ac swap swap defau$
contents of /etc/mtab
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configfs /sys/kernel/config configfs rw,relatime 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,relatime 0 0
mqueue /dev/mqueue mqueue rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
hugetlbfs /dev/hugepages hugetlbfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /media tmpfs rw,rootcontext=system_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0,seclabel,nosuid,no$
/dev/sda3 /home ext4 rw,seclabel,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered$
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,relatime 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/neruson/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,rela$
and here's what I get when I run "sudo fdisk -l"
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[neruson@megatron ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for neruson:
Disk /dev/sda: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders, total 2930277168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000f1725
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 20482047 10240000 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 20482048 28674047 4096000 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 28674048 2930276351 1450801152 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0005d3c3
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 976773119 488385536 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
It's an 8GiB sandisk mini cruiser and it used to be listed under /dev/sdc... I hope that's enough information. I've never had this type of problem reformatting a flashdrive after installing a bootable image to it before. I have no idea how to fix it, so any help on how to get this working again would be greatly appreciated. I want Fedora back on my laptop and I don't want to buy any CD-R's. Plus I'd like to be able to use my flashdrive again
---------- Post added at 07:46 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:06 AM ----------
Nevermind. I figured out what the problems were. Apparently BOTH of my front usb ports have gone bad in my desktop. I plugged it into one of the four on the back of my desktop and it read it fine. Reformatted it with gparted and ran liveusb-creator which told me that the mbr was screwed up and to run "liveusb-creator --reset-mbr" I did that and it's working fine now
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