Recently I created a WIndows 7 Boot Stick using diskpart. Since installing it besides my Tumbleweed installation (UEFI ) failed due to Windows crashing during the installation I now wanted to install Ubuntu (just wanted to give it a try anyway) besides Tumbleweed. Unfortunately the USB stick is no longer recognized by openSUSE. On top of that some recent Tumbleweed update broke my installation, and I need the stick to reinstall it.
I can mount the stick as a drive/format it with YaST. However the ImageWriter app also does not see the stick.
Any ideas?
Since you reformatted the stick, it should be recognized without further measures, so perhaps it’s a hardware issue.
When you connect it, what does dmesg (in a terminal) says?
It shows
7303.067944] usb 3-3: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
7303.191507] usb 3-3: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6387
7303.191515] usb 3-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
7303.191520] usb 3-3: SerialNumber: 13112001005563
7303.192814] usb-storage 3-3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
7303.193277] scsi11 : usb-storage 3-3:1.0
7304.197084] scsi 11:0:0:0: Direct-Access 8.07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
7304.197667] sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
7304.199456] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] 15482880 512-byte logical blocks: (7.92 GB/7.38 GiB)
7304.200641] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
7304.200651] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
7304.201767] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn’t support DPO or FUA
7304.208849] sdb: sdb1
7304.212363] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Your dmesg output seems OK, so I’ll do some wild guessing.
This is the output from dmesg after inserting a 32GB FAT pendrive in my desktop:
188403.317397] usb 3-5: new high-speed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd
[188403.485885] usb 3-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0930, idProduct=6545
[188403.485887] usb 3-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[188403.485888] usb 3-5: Product: DataTraveler G3
[188403.485889] usb 3-5: Manufacturer: Kingston
[188403.485890] usb 3-5: SerialNumber: 001A92BE6AAAEB817000000C
[188403.486684] usb-storage 3-5:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[188403.486785] scsi9 : usb-storage 3-5:1.0
[188404.564804] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DataTraveler G3 PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[188404.565013] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
[188406.040581] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdg] 60978816 512-byte logical blocks: (31.2 GB/29.0 GiB)
[188406.040741] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
[188406.040744] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[188406.040885] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdg] No Caching mode page found
[188406.040887] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: write through
[188406.062755] sdg: sdg1
[188406.063926] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI removable disk
It’s inserted in a USB2 port, but it uses xhxi_hcd anyway, which IINM is the USB2/3 (and perhaps USB1) kernel driver. You can see it loaded by running lsmod as root in a terminal.
Your pendrive is using ehci, which supports USB1/2. Is it by chance connected to a USB3 port? I presume you’re doing this in another computer, as your thumbleweed installation is borked.
Also, did you try the stick in other USB ports? And another stick in the same port?
Go back to a windows install and use DISKPART to clean and format the drive
Any ideas?
This reads like you’re wanting to write an Ubuntu .iso to the usb stick, is that right? Then what you really need to do is make sure stick is unmounted, so that imagewriter can to it’s low-level bit copy.
Use the following to see the device listings
fdisk -l
This will confirm if mounted
mount
If it is mounted as /dev/sdb, then unmount it with
sudo umount /dev/sdB
and proceed with Imagewriter…
or you could just use ‘dd’. For example
dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M