Comment 7 for bug 455935

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Darryl H (fidelite) wrote :

I can also confirm that this affects me on an Acer Aspire One A0A 150, however, I think this has to do with the way in which it was installed to the USB disk, rather than the hardware it's going to.

Troubleshooting:
First I tried using both unetbootin-windows-377.exe and usb-creator.exe that comes with the UNR 9.10 from windows 7 with the same results. This was either a hang with a black screen, or I would get dumped to busybox with "can not mount /dev/loop1 on /cow"

Further Diagnosis:
I formatted a USB disk in Windows 7 using quick format (Fat16) and copied the ISO to to the USB drive to try to run the linux utility in to install the UNR, however, upon inserting the USB disk into the other machine (Dell D620) it displayed all kinds of different partitions (Novell being one of them) and not being able to mount the volume. Formatting the volume on Linux and presenting it back to both Windows XP and Windows 7 resulted in files that had illegal file names, and sizes that were larger than the capacity of the USB drive could hold, as well as file dates from 1980, 1999, and 2064 (If only it could have also provided me with next week's lottery numbers...)

Solution:
I then formatted a second USB key in windows 7 not specifying the quick format, then moved to a Windows XP box and used unetbootin-windows-377.exe to extract the ISO to the USB drive and the installation went off without a hitch.

I'm not sure if it's the non-quick format, or, the moving to Windows XP to copy the ISO to the USB key, but one (or both in tandem) resolved the issue for me.

Cheers!