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Boot ISO from USB Stick

Many Linux distribution builders like Devuan and Debian produce hybrid ISO image that work on discs and USB sticks. You can make bootable USB sticks by simply copying the image to the USB device with this command dd if=isoimage of=/dev/sdX bs=10240 You can find the device name (X) by looking into dmesg oder lsscsi, and […]

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USB SCSI Disconnects when Idle

Problem: An external USB harddrive disconnects and immediately reconnects with different device name. You find log entries like these: Jan 17 00:46:52 workstation kernel: [212306.086568] sd 33:0:0:0: [sdj] Attached SCSI disk Jan 17 01:51:14 workstation kernel: [216168.064075] usb 2-4: USB disconnect, device number 11 Jan 17 01:51:15 workstation kernel: [216168.596514] usb 2-4: new SuperSpeed USB device

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