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Lowra

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Registered: 2009-09-21

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[SOLVED]USB Stick install: cfdisk FATAL ERROR: cannot open disk drive

Hi,

I'm trying to install ArchLinux on a recently bought OCZ usb stick. I looked at the wiki article which may be outdated, but I still can't get things working actually.

The boot under Arch Live CD seems good. When I am about to launch cfdisk, my usb stick is detected (as sdb), but then under cfdisk I have the following:

FATAL ERROR: cannot open disk drive

I don't know what I can try :s

Thanks

EDIT: Additionnal info: My usb stick is sdb, and it has one ext2 primary partition (sdb1) created using gparted.
I tried to modprobe usb_sd and usb_storage in this order but It didn't change anything.

Last edited by Lowra (2011-04-18 09:30:41)

jeslinmx

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Registered: 2010-11-20

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Re: [SOLVED]USB Stick install: cfdisk FATAL ERROR: cannot open disk drive

Do you have the permissions to read/write the drive?

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Lowra

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Registered: 2009-09-21

Posts: 192

Re: [SOLVED]USB Stick install: cfdisk FATAL ERROR: cannot open disk drive

Do you have the permissions to read/write the drive?

Hum, I guess I do because I am logged as root in the ArchLinux installer

Lowra

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Registered: 2009-09-21

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Re: [SOLVED]USB Stick install: cfdisk FATAL ERROR: cannot open disk drive

up !

rayjgu3

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Re: [SOLVED]USB Stick install: cfdisk FATAL ERROR: cannot open disk drive

its a partition problem
I run into it usually with new usb or sd cards I use to install various distros
heres the fix
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd* bs=1M

just replace * with the correct letter assigned to that drive
you may need to reset the device or even reboot.

Lowra

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Registered: 2009-09-21

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Re: [SOLVED]USB Stick install: cfdisk FATAL ERROR: cannot open disk drive

SOLVED. (Before reading your post rayjgu3, but you're right I guess)
I deleted all partitions through Gparted, and once in cdfisk, it worked