Hardlink on wheezy by default for usb-stick?


 
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# 1  
Old 03-24-2015
Hardlink on wheezy by default for usb-stick?

May somebody can give me a hint. I am still using my old squeeze and it works the way I want. But my recent post about changing the owners rights, e.g. 777 or 755 anyway, it could be 644 as well. While configuring a new pc, just by chance I discovered how to enter the BIOS. And here it comes. I want to install from an usb-stick the debian-7.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso.
Allright, there should be no obstacle so far. But this usb-stick was formatted in ext4 on another debian 7.8 machine and this very usb-stick now is refusing me as root on squeeze to unpack even in the terminal the package. No matter if I try chmod, chown 644 -d name-of-the-file. I don't have permission to do so. That would mean for my humble understanding that this device has won a hardlink to the other machine, I truly don't have a clue. Is there someone out there who could give me a hint. Thanks a lot in advance, I keep gouging my way through this. Maybe I am wrong, and there is no hardlink, but only root can act as rwx, the rest is set to r.

Code:
debian-7.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso is not RAR archive

this is what I get, after typing as root.

Code:
root@rechenknecht2:/media/usb0# unrar e debian-7.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso
root@rechenknecht2:/media/usb0# unrar l debian-7.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso
root@rechenknecht2:/media/usb0# unrar y debian-7.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso

but it is such a package to be unpacked, I did it before, earlier version of wheezy, and where I am doing wrong?

maybe something like this:

Code:
mount -o loop -t iso9660 debian-7.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso /media/usb0/

yep, luky strike...it worked.



but after solving this, on rebooting after the changes of the BIOS, there comes up, the real grewsome two aspects.
changes to the American Megatrends Bios version 2.15.1236 in the boot sequence are not saved, even clicking so. I switches back to EFI or UEFI and furhtermore it tells me that there is no BIOS fils in this usb key. Where the hack do I slam in to that usb key any bios file. After rebooting the screen tells me about grub rescue. So the BIOS itself saves the BIOS to the storage device with a strange name, that means...never use a large usb-device for that, unless you have to much of them. But grub rescue> after rebooting continues. So any hints to that. Thanks in advance!!!

Last edited by 1in10; 03-24-2015 at 11:56 PM.. Reason: solved and new problem on the horizon, grub rescue
# 2  
Old 03-25-2015
I've never attempted to 'read' an iso file using RAR.....
Instead i've always used mount, to then copy the files out of the mounted path, as you did for your own surprise.

I do not even understanding why you are surprised that an ISO file is not a RAR-archive?
Or how you associate this with with a hardlink issue, thats quite something different.

Smilie

In regards how you attempt to read an iso file i must ask, how did you write that iso file onto your usb stick?

No, the BIOS doesnt store 'itself' on the stick.
But there must be files readable by the bios on the stick in order to boot, those are required, however they are not 'bios' (nor (u)efi either)

Simple said, (probably) technicly incorrect:
Your computer looks according to its config/setting for either an (U)EFI or a BIOS file on the device selected to load (hdd, cd/dvd, usb), if none required file was found, it reports that no OS could be detected and the booting fails.

hth

Last edited by sea; 03-25-2015 at 07:37 AM..
# 3  
Old 03-25-2015
An ISO is not an archive, it is a raw disk image -- a raw cdrom/dvd/bluray disk image. This is why it works with mount, not archiver tools. It has to be something which understands cdrom format.
# 4  
Old 03-25-2015
As an answer to sea, the BIOS of the version mentioned up above requires such a written line on the usb-media, though unpacked. It is an msi-board, the menu itself got some 12 entries for the boot sequence. So it may wasn't correct to put it like this, but until UEFI or something like this, I really never had to make such a fuss writing or connecting the boot media with on single bit of the BIOS. Or even a command-line for such a media. Who may is into this trouble with UEFI may knows about this. Nonetheless I am repairing my GRUB.
And yes he may looks to a former partition with an MBR, because there has been a pre-installed version of UBUNTU. As my attempt was to get unetbootin to install another OS (Debian). My problem startet. In this very case it is not the OS, whether UBUNTU or anything else, it is UEFI that stubbornly blocks any attempt to get access.

And learning from this article

https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorial...ub-2-on-linux/

I must be a fool to think there still is a MBR. This has been ages ago, nowadays it is called "shiny new Globally Unique Identifiers partition table (GPT)".

Last edited by 1in10; 03-25-2015 at 05:36 PM.. Reason: new information for GRUB2
# 5  
Old 03-26-2015
no solution to grub rescue or rescue disk

Getting a bit upset about GRUB RESCUE> that requires some commands like
ls, set. set prefix=(hd0.1) I put on another usb-stick the so called rescue-kit as mentioned here
Rescue your Windows & GNU/Linux systems - Rescatux & Super Grub2 Disk , I took the
super_grub2_disk_i386_efi_2.00s2.iso and after plugging it into the usb-port asking the commands mentioned above.
ls is telling me, there are as follows:

Code:
(hd0) (hd0,msdos2) (hd0,msdos1) (hd1) (hd1,msdos1)

while setting the following command at

Code:
grub rescue> set prefix=(hd1,msdos1)/boot/grub
grub rescue> set root=(hd1,msdos1)
grub rescue> insmod normal

there occurs the message:

Code:
error: file file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found.

Before that the error message was:

Code:
`grub_term_highlight_color` not found. Entering rescue mode....

throwing me back to

Code:
grub rescue>

After changing several times the boot sequence in the UEFI-Bios, saving it and exit, to try to reboot, the same procedure.
So I tried :

Code:
'dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc ' for effect

But there is no effect.

https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/bugs

this link doesn't help me either. Any hints? Thanks a lot.
# 6  
Old 03-30-2015
typing up and down the following commands as the link tells me to do

[SOLVED] error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color" not found. grub rescue>

always coming back to grub rescue> the same procedure as every time,

Code:
error: symbol 'grub_term_highlight_color' not found

then

Code:
entering rescue mode....

Code:
'grub rescue> 'dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc' for effect'

Code:
>set
>set prefix=(hd0,1) /boot/grub
>set root=(hd0,1)
>set insmod normal
>normal
>insmod linux
>linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/hd0,1 ro
>initrd /initrd.img
>boot

and looping back to
grub rescue>

even trying

Code:
fschk -y /dev/hd0,1

gives me no reply at all. The first repair-kit is on an usb-drive formatted in FAT32 to repair grub. Entering the BIOS it is flashing from the usb-drive.
Before all that I tried without success to execute the commands above with
sda for SATA-hdd.
And not even

Code:
'fdisk -l'

seems to work. Think I am done with uefi. :-(

---------- Post updated at 11:42 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:54 PM ----------

Starting now in efi mode the mobo tells me startup.nsh, wow, backslashes all over the place. This shell must be nuts.
This link gets me some help
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/grub-efi-amd64
allthough I am at the very beginning of this.
Code:
 EFI Shell version 2.31 [5.8]
    Current running mode 1.1.2
    Device mapping table
      fs0  : Harddisk - Alias hd5a65535a1   blk0
             PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x13,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0x0)/HD(1,...,0x800,0xF3800)
      blk0 : Harddisk - Alias hd5a65535a1   fs0
             PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x13,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0x0)/HD(1,GPT,...,0x800,0xF3800)
      blk1 : Harddisk - Alias (null)
             PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x13,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0x0)/HD(2,GPT,...,0xF4000,0xBA43800)
      blk2 : Harddisk - Alias (null)
             PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x13,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0x0)/HD(3,GPT,...)
      blk3 : Harddisk - Alias (null)
             PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x13,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0x0)/HD(4,GPT,...)
      blk4 : BlockDevice - Alias (null)
             PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x13,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0x0)
      blk5 : BlockDevice - Alias (null)
             PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1C,0x1)/PCI(0x0,0x0)

    Press ESC in 1 seconds to skip startup.nsh, any other key to continue.
    Shell>

Code:
fdisk -l is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Invalid file system mapping on hd16c0b

...great.

while trying to unpack the rescue-kit on my usb-device, at the laptop there it says after typing

Code:
root@rechenknecht2:/media/usb0/save# mount -o loop -t iso9660 grub-efi-amd64_1.99-27+deb7u2_amd64.deb /media/usb0/save
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

where the directory named /save is containing the debian-file. So there is a conflict at the basic, where the usb-drive with this very specific debian-packet is on an usb-drive that is formatted in FAT32 to fullfill the requirements of UEFI but working in the wrong place.
Any hints for this nutshell of microsoft? Setting the SATA to another plug? Thanks in advance.

quote:

"This represents only the beginning of the uses and benefits of EFI shell commands and scripts. Not only can EFI be used similarly to a MS-DOS device driver, its capabilities also remove the hassle of modifying the OS. Disk utility vendors can use EFI to craft powerful tools like platform-independent disk partitioning. Another of EFI's benefits is that the same device drivers can be used by many EFI-compliant platforms, thus providing a good return on investment. EFI allows users to create device drivers to access hardware directly without having to go through the OS, making the process both simpler and faster."

from
https://software.intel.com/en-us/art...-and-scripting

getting tired......to be simpler and faster, way beyond my expectations.

Last edited by 1in10; 03-31-2015 at 12:39 AM.. Reason: grammar correction and quotation from intel
# 7  
Old 03-31-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by 1in10
Code:
root@rechenknecht2:/media/usb0/save# mount -o loop -t iso9660 grub-efi-amd64_1.99-27+deb7u2_amd64.deb /media/usb0/save
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

You are trying to mount a debian package.
Its just like your attempt to unrar an iso file.

deb != iso != rar
Though, you might have better luck with un[rt]ar the deb package.
But those are ment to be installed on an system, not mounted.

Try: (either just this, or use tab to autocomplete to the full file name you want to install, which ALWAYS ends on deb)
Code:
su
apt-get install grub-efi-amd64

Hope this helps
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