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I used Unetbootin to make a bootable vicibox drive from my mp3 player.

Now it's not showing up:

thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 74.5G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 243M 0 part /boot
├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 74.3G 0 part
├─ubuntu--vg-root (dm-0) 252:0 0 72.3G 0 lvm /
└─ubuntu--vg-swap_1 (dm-1) 252:1 0 2G 0 lvm [SWAP]
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ sudo lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 045e:00b4 Microsoft Corp. Digital Media Keyboard
1.0A
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 045e:00cb Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse v2.0
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e2030

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 499711 248832 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 501758 156301311 77899777 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 501760 156301311 77899776 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root: 77.6 GB, 77628178432 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9437 cylinders, total 151617536 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1: 2139 MB, 2139095040 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 260 cylinders, total 4177920 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ mount
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=thufir)
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$


Which I suppose is because it has the vicibox .iso file?

It connects with a squished USB cable, so perhaps that's the problem? It
has to directly connect with the full USB connector?

The BIOS is set to boot from USB first, but it didn't detect it either.
How do I confirm that the mp3 player has the .iso?


thanks,

Thufir

Hello,
Can you share what are your server specs?
also, what is the ISO version?

I don't have server specs available, have only tested on my home pc. The download is:

ViciBox5.i686-5.0.3.iso

I just tried on my home pc to confirm that at boot it would prompt for the install. It did not detect the USB MP3, and now it doesn't seem to detect it under any circumstances.

It's not a big deal, per se, it's just a $10 MP3 player. Perhaps I made an error with Unetbootin which somehow broke the MP3 player?

I haven't tried on another computer yet, to see whether it will at least try to mount the MP3 player with automount, or, even better, try to boot from the MP3 player.

It's not relevant that it uses squished USB? Mini- or Micro- USB, one of those, on the player, and then a regular USB connection on the computer.

I think that the problem is described here quite well:

https://answers.launchpad.net/unetbooti ... ion/219012

However, I seem to have mislaid the dongle at the moment, so cannot test this solution.

What's the solution on Linux? Use GParted?

Also, try with Vicibox 4 and another PC.