Comments on: The USB Recovery in detail http://webbookblog.com/the-usb-recovery-in-detail/ best viewed at 1024x600 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:38:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: john voisey http://webbookblog.com/the-usb-recovery-in-detail/comment-page-1/#comment-1321 john voisey Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:06:12 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=345#comment-1321 I made a comment in the "server down" blog entry earlier but I now realise my problem may be better expressed here. I have just acquired one of the usb wrist-strap drives hoping to use it to reset my webbook after the hard drive decided it was uncleanly dismounted, tried to fix itself, and then cheerfully erased itself days after I bought it six months ago. The stick has a directory named intrepidibex so I guess this is the new release. Has anyone had problems with this (or for that matter has anyone had any success !!!!!) You see, when I follow the instructions - to the letter - that came with it, things start copying, but grind to a halt when I get about 12% of the way into restoring the 3GB of /dev/hda1. The install screen shows a royal blue square cursor appearing below the grey/blue dialog box, then it stops the copying process, goes black, starts a reboot, and comes up with grub error 2. Which is hardly surprising since the restore process is supposed to take 20 minutes and this happens after about four .... The drive itself appears to be fine - it certainly happily took and ran arch linux (!) and the installation process for that did not report any drive sector issues or similar. I'm not familiar with the software used on this stick to effect a restoration and I don't know if there is any sort of log file created anywhere. Any ideas on a way forward would be MOST welcome (!!!!) I made a comment in the “server down” blog entry earlier but I now realise my problem may be better expressed here.

I have just acquired one of the usb wrist-strap drives hoping to use it to reset my webbook after the hard drive decided it was uncleanly dismounted, tried to fix itself, and then cheerfully erased itself days after I bought it six months ago.

The stick has a directory named intrepidibex so I guess this is the new release. Has anyone had problems with this (or for that matter has anyone had any success !!!!!)

You see, when I follow the instructions – to the letter – that came with it, things start copying, but grind to a halt when I get about 12% of the way into restoring the 3GB of /dev/hda1.

The install screen shows a royal blue square cursor appearing below the grey/blue dialog box, then it stops the copying process, goes black, starts a reboot, and comes up with grub error 2. Which is hardly surprising since the restore process is supposed to take 20 minutes and this happens after about four ….

The drive itself appears to be fine – it certainly happily took and ran arch linux (!) and the installation process for that did not report any drive sector issues or similar.

I’m not familiar with the software used on this stick to effect a restoration and I don’t know if there is any sort of log file created anywhere.

Any ideas on a way forward would be MOST welcome (!!!!)

]]> By: Alan Bell http://webbookblog.com/the-usb-recovery-in-detail/comment-page-1/#comment-1144 Alan Bell Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:38:40 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=345#comment-1144 yes, that is very true. One thing I would like to work on for the future is having a small 10GB operating system partition (or set of partitions and having the rest as the /home partition which would be 70GB or whatever you have upgraded to.). There is endless debate on the appropriate size of the swap partition, I think it matters less than it used to do. yes, that is very true. One thing I would like to work on for the future is having a small 10GB operating system partition (or set of partitions and having the rest as the /home partition which would be 70GB or whatever you have upgraded to.). There is endless debate on the appropriate size of the swap partition, I think it matters less than it used to do.

]]> By: Peter http://webbookblog.com/the-usb-recovery-in-detail/comment-page-1/#comment-1143 Peter Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:30:35 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=345#comment-1143 Just a note for anyone that has upgraded their machine - this sets up the partition table to be the same as the source disk, so if you have a larger HDD it will leave slack space at the end of the drive. It also creates a fixed size swap partition rather than basing in on the RAM size of the machine in the way the installer does. Just a note for anyone that has upgraded their machine – this sets up the partition table to be the same as the source disk, so if you have a larger HDD it will leave slack space at the end of the drive. It also creates a fixed size swap partition rather than basing in on the RAM size of the machine in the way the installer does.

]]> By: Alan Bell http://webbookblog.com/the-usb-recovery-in-detail/comment-page-1/#comment-1140 Alan Bell Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:38:27 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=345#comment-1140 I didn't use a script to set it up, I did it all manually. The point of the script was to reduce the typing hence error potential at the factory so they could reproduce the configuration we built at this end before we had all the partition cloning thing sussed. This particular image isn't going to the factory just yet. I didn’t use a script to set it up, I did it all manually. The point of the script was to reduce the typing hence error potential at the factory so they could reproduce the configuration we built at this end before we had all the partition cloning thing sussed. This particular image isn’t going to the factory just yet.

]]> By: Matt http://webbookblog.com/the-usb-recovery-in-detail/comment-page-1/#comment-1139 Matt Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:50:37 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=345#comment-1139 Most important bit of that being that the factory can use it! Tell me, does the image still contain setup_wb.sh, or did you delete that... Most important bit of that being that the factory can use it!
Tell me, does the image still contain setup_wb.sh, or did you delete that…

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