Issues boot from USB debian

Hi all,

I am having problems booting debian from the usb. I re-created the usb twice and both times get the same error. It seems that either the partition was not created correctly or an image is missing from the usb. Any thoughts? I followed the install instructions to the letter.

Thanks.

Elviso

scanning bus for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
** Bad partition 1 **
** Bad partition 1 **
Wrong Image Format for bootm command
ERROR: can't get kernel image!
stopping USB..
### JFFS2 loading 'uboot-original-mtd0.kwb' to 0x800000
Scanning JFFS2 FS: ........ done.
### JFFS2 load complete: 524288 bytes loaded to 0x800000
## Starting application at 0x00800200 ...

Elviso Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Hi all,
>
> I am having problems booting debian from the usb.
> I re-created the usb twice and both times get the
> same error. It seems that either the partition
> was not created correctly or an image is missing
> from the usb. Any thoughts? I followed the
> install instructions to the letter.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Elviso
>
> scanning bus for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
> scanning bus for storage devices... 1
> Storage Device(s) found
> ** Bad partition 1 **
> ** Bad partition 1 **
> Wrong Image Format for bootm command
> ERROR: can't get kernel image!
> stopping USB..
> ### JFFS2 loading 'uboot-original-mtd0.kwb' to
> 0x800000
> Scanning JFFS2 FS: ........ done.
> ### JFFS2 load complete: 524288 bytes loaded to
> 0x800000
> ## Starting application at 0x00800200 ...

I had the same problem. Your USB stick is not compatible. Try using SanDisk. I solved my problem by "cp -Ra" from bad Verbatim drive to a SanDisk flash drive. Also prepare the flash disk partitions on an external Linux machine.

Some USB sticks tend to only work on warm boots or cold boots. If you find lots of input output errors it can mean your stick is going bad. I've got an ativa (office depot brand) 4GB stick that works well on cold starts and tends to fail out on warm starts.

Was about to try an 8GB verbatim... ah well. :)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/11/2010 05:27AM by gzader.

Same problem with:
Kingston DataTraveler 100 USB flash drive - 8 GB
it allows to boot Debian only from warm start.