can't boot a Mint Cin 17.1 live Sandisk Ultra Fit 3.0 32GB

Hi jdb2,

I noticed that you are using different flash drive (Cruiser Ultra), but it looks like you know what you are doing (can’t say that about me when it comes to linux).

I’m totally lost about sector0. Could you explain in more detail what to do with it, please? Do you think it could work on Ultra Fit flash drive?

I also noticed difference in partitions. Mine is:

looking at part 0 (offset 1048576, size 31098667008, type 0x0b)

whereas yours is:

looking at part 0 (offset 4128768, size 31620923392, type 0x0c)

Attaching rest of the logs:

mydlo@mint ~ $ sudo smartctl -a -T verypermissive -d scsi /dev/sdb
smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [i686-linux-3.13.0-37-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               SanDisk
Product:              Ultra Fit
Revision:             1.00
User Capacity:        31,104,958,464 bytes [31.1 GB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Serial number:        [censored]
Device type:          disk
Local Time is:        Wed Jun  3 23:54:00 2015 CEST
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
Temperature Warning:  Disabled or Not Supported

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK

Error Counter logging not supported

Device does not support Self Test logging

mydlo@mint ~ $ sudo udevadm info --query=all --name=sdb
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-6/2-6:1.0/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sdb
N: sdb
S: disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk\_Ultra\_Fit\_[censored]-0:0
S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:6:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk\_Ultra\_Fit\_[censored]-0:0 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:6:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
E: DEVNAME=/dev/sdb
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-6/2-6:1.0/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sdb
E: DEVTYPE=disk
E: ID\_BUS=usb
E: ID\_INSTANCE=0:0
E: ID\_MODEL=Ultra\_Fit
E: ID\_MODEL\_ENC=Ultra\x20Fit\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20
E: ID\_MODEL\_ID=5583
E: ID\_PART\_TABLE\_TYPE=dos
E: ID\_PATH=pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:6:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
E: ID\_PATH\_TAG=pci-0000\_00\_1d\_7-usb-0\_6\_1\_0-scsi-0\_0\_0\_0
E: ID\_REVISION=1.00
E: ID\_SERIAL=SanDisk\_Ultra\_Fit\_[censored]-0:0
E: ID\_SERIAL\_SHORT=[censored]
E: ID\_TYPE=disk
E: ID\_USB\_DRIVER=usb-storage
E: ID\_USB\_INTERFACES=:080650:
E: ID\_USB\_INTERFACE\_NUM=00
E: ID\_VENDOR=SanDisk
E: ID\_VENDOR\_ENC=SanDisk\x20
E: ID\_VENDOR\_ID=0781
E: MAJOR=8
E: MINOR=16
E: SUBSYSTEM=block
E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE=1
E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_COUNT=1
E: UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_SCHEME=mbr
E: UDISKS\_PRESENTATION\_NOPOLICY=0
E: USEC\_INITIALIZED=3636733

mydlo@mint ~ $ sudo /lib/udev/udisks-part-id /dev/sdb
using device\_file=/dev/sdb syspath=/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-6/2-6:1.0/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sdb, offset=0 ao=0 and number=0 for /dev/sdb
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=31104958464)
MSDOS\_MAGIC found
looking at part 0 (offset 1048576, size 31098667008, type 0x0b)
new part entry
looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
Exiting MS-DOS parser
MSDOS partition table detected
UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE=1
UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_SCHEME=mbr
UDISKS\_PARTITION\_TABLE\_COUNT=1

I will really appreciate if you could help me with this issue.

Thank you in advance,

mydlo