Installed Karmic RC with full updates and attempted to make a USB boot disk for my netbook. I tried both aUSB key and SD card. Both failed to format. The on e that did format had a warning sign next to the partion it created that said I needed to format again. I tried using the new disk utility to erase the partion made and make a new one, but the startup disk creator still saw the old partion it had made, even when I used Gparted to create a new disk label. I tried reformating the disk and even used Shred and DD Zero on both disk, but startup disk creator still saw them both as having bad partions that needed to be formated. Eventually I used my netbook with Jaunty on it to reformat both disk and make Fat32 partions. The Startup disk creator still mounted the drive itself with a format warning, but allowed the UNR iso to be written to the disk and the thubdrive booted with only onlyt one non-fatal error that is likely unrelated.
I then used startup disk creator again to format one of the cards and mounted it on my net book to see what was wrong. Fdisk said the cylinder count and sectors were bad and did match the disk count. I tried using expert mode in Fdisk to correct both errors and was able to fix them so it looks like startup creator is corrupting the disk when formating. Error seems related to how disk utility mounts the drives as it shows similar issues in disk utility. Sorry this is so long, but I spent four hours tryinfg different stuff to see if I could find a hack fix, because I did not want to install Karmic to my netbook if I can't format disk as I often use it for this purpose. -- USB Startup Disk Creator does nothing when trying to format a disk https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/457737 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
