Re: [GTALUG] war story: creating Raspberry Pi 2 boot card

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:

When creating a system for the RP I have had a 100% success rate with the GTK-based Startup Disk Creator <https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/usb-creator-gtk/> under Ubuntu.

'dd' has worked for me but I recall having to use some non-default block settings. One article suggests "bs=1m" as an arg to dd.

I created an Ubuntu 14.04 boot image for the Pi 2 using (new to me) *bmap-tools*. My notes for writing to microSD and setting up root to run from an external USD hard drive: http://www.circuidipity.com/run-a-raspberry-pi-2-from-external-usb-storage.h... Uptime 6 days and counting... -- (o< .: Per curiositas ad astra .: http://www.circuidipity.com (/)_