I messed up my existing Manjaro installation on a somewhat old computer, so I wanted to use a live USB boot. Since that one was also quite old, I wanted to install a new one there first. With both KDE and Gnome, I tried this command:
dd if=….iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress
No errors there, checksum was correct, resulting partition looks big enough in GParted, but when I actually want to use it, I get this (may contain typos, can’t copy+paste):
Starting systemd-udevd version 252.5-1-manjaro
mount: /run/miso/sfs/rootfs: can´t read superblock on /dev/loop3
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
ERROR; Failed to mount 'dev/loop3'
Falling back to interactive prompt
You can try to fix the problem manually, log out when you are finished
sh: can´t access tty; job control turned off
[rootfs ]#
The output of “dmesg” is way too long to type it all, should I attach photos? The bits that seem relevant to me are:
loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 292688 (4 times with different numbers) and then…
kworker/u8:3: attempt to access beyond end of device …and…
sdb: rw=524288, sector=7963540, nr_sectors = 8 limit=7866368
…a couple of times with different numbers, some of them followed by:
I/O error, dev loop3, sector 2054016 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 1 prio class 2 (also with different numbers) and at the end…
SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x3eb055af: -5
unable to read xattr id index table
Is this an issue with all current downloads, am I doing something wrong or is the USB drive itself maybe broken (seems fine when writing, though)? Is there any other information I can get out of this while in simplified command mode?
