Writing image to SD card corrupts the card

[kunnu...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I have been trying to write the image of bone-debian-9.1-lxqt-armhf-2017-08-31-4gb  to SD card and it is successful as well but when I check the file system onto the card, it only shows FAT32 type and when I click the SD card, it is corrupted and says it again needs format.

Now I have previously worked on raspberry pi 3 as well and I am very much pretty sure about the process of un-archiving the XZ file to img file and then writing the images to SD card, but don' t what is the problem with the Debian images.

I have tried loading the above images on 4 GB as well as 8 GB SD cards(Class 4 both) and in both the cards it gets corrupted.

On same 8 GB card I tried to write the Raspbian jessie image and it shows a well worked output of proper file system.

Also even after this much failure, with very little hope left I tried the flashing procedure onto the Beaglebone Black with the disk image of bone-debian-9.1-lxqt-armhf-2017-08-31-4gb  written on the SD card.

I tried the same suggested procedure of holding the S2 button down and powering up the board but it seems to boot the normal preloaded OS only and just doesn' t flash as per the LED sequence showing up.

I have used both WIN32Disk imager and Etcher for wrinting the images to SD card.

[Andrew Kirch]

Windows is too stupid to recognize the other filesystem.  Boot it in the beaglebone and you should be fine.

Andrew

--
For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/21c7568b-cac6-4478-9413-4a2930285a78%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 01:34:48 -0700 (PDT),
kunnu...@gmail.com declaimed the
following:

>
>I have been trying to write the image of *bone-debian-9.1-lxqt-armhf-2017-08-31-4gb
>* to SD card and it is successful as well but when I check the file system

>onto the card, it only shows FAT32 type and when I click the SD card, it is
>corrupted and says it again needs format.
>

What are you using to perform this "check the file system"?

Windows? Windows doesn't know anything about ext# filesystems and tends
to report anything containing such a format as invalid.

>
>On same 8 GB card I tried to write the Raspbian jessie image and it shows a
>well worked output of proper file system.
>

A pure Raspbian image, or a NOOBS image? NOOBS images start as FAT32
with a compressed Raspbian -- and converts the SD card during the
"installation" from the card (leaving a small FAT recovery partition which
Windows does see).

>
>I tried the same suggested procedure of holding the S2 button down and
>powering up the board but it seems to boot the normal preloaded OS only and
>just doesn' t flash as per the LED sequence showing up.
>

Confusing -- do you mean the LED flashing, or flashing the eMMC from
the SD card? Most images these days do not automatically flash to eMMC --
they have to have a file edited first to turn them into flasher images.
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlf...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/