I rarely ever time luck getting usb boot disks to work using linux tools for whatever reason.  I keep a usb cd drive and a stack of cdr/dvdr's around still.

That said, last time I tried, I found arch required a disklabel to be written that the disk volume shows up as "ARCH" to the OS that it didn't do by default with ubuntu's iso to usb tool(s), might be something as simple as that.

-mb


On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 3:25 PM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
how are you writing the image? if just dd try balena etcher maybe?

On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 4:41 PM Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
On 2021-06-09 15:55, Dennis via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Okay, I tried dmesg and it showed [there was a partition
> on /dev/sdc1 ]. When I tried [to mount] that, I got
> "can't find in etc/fstab".

I put the important parts you left out in []s.  Why are you trying to
mount things?  You said you want to install Tails to a USB disk.  That
does not involve mounting anything, but dding the tails-1.2.3.img file
to the entire USB disk.

If I plug in an old Memorex USB disk, then immediately do "dmesg |
tail", and I snip all the irrelevant bits, I get:

scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Memorex TRAVELDRIVE 005B
   sdf: sdf1 sdf2

...this is a Gentoo USB installation image with 2 partitions, one EFI
and one with the install data.  So if I wanted to install Tails to this
USB disk, I would do:

dd if=tails-1.2.3.img of=/dev/sdf bs=1M

...as a user who had write permission to /dev/sdf .  Note that your USB
disk will show up as a completely different /dev/sdX device.

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