Re: write error on 1.8.1

You can ignore this. It's a physdiskwrite bug triggered by the digital signature (which the beta images do not have) - the image will work anyway.

- Manuel


On 15.01.2014, at 16:23, Niko <[email protected]> wrote:

> Firstly thanks to all for the work on 1.8.1. It is great to see a new release with such great improvements.
> 
> I'm having an issue writing generic-pc-1.8.1.img to a flash drive and I feel like a beginner. It fails at the same point each time after the same amount of bytes written. I do not have a spare flash drive handy to test which is my downfall, so i feel silly asking so soon. However indications below appear it might not be the flash drive.
> 
> 
> I've checksummed the downloaded image (e18e752577e24c7a61df525e4d962b4a) and verified it against the MD5 on the download page. I've used diskpart to clean the drive and still can't get it to place nicely.
> 
> What's the diagnosis if I can write the beta but I get a write error using the final image?
> 
> 
> 
> M:\mono>physdiskwrite.exe -u generic-pc-1.8.1.img
> .....
> About to overwrite the contents of disk 3 with new data. Proceed? (y/n) y
> Found signed compressed image file
> 14516224 bytes writtenWrite error after 14516224 bytes (2182).
> 
> 
> Inside the Mono folder above where phydiskwrite is, i've a few beta images. I can select any of them and they write to completion, eg. the last beta:
> 
> M:\mono>physdiskwrite.exe -u generic-pc-1.8.1b561.img
> .....
> About to overwrite the contents of disk 3 with new data. Proceed? (y/n) y
> Found compressed image file
> 26972160/26972160 bytes written in total
> 
> 
> Thanks for any pointers!