On Wed Dec 18 04:48:29 EST 2013, conor.williams@gmail.com wrote:


> i'm getting an error code 87 writing usbdisk to my key:
>
> according to the web: The second fix prevents USB Image Tool from
> restoring invalid images in device mode.  A valid device mode image
> has to be multiple of 512.  If that’s not the case, the write
> operation will fail with error code 87 close to the end of the
> process.  To prevent this, USB Image Tool now checks, if the image
> file size is a multiple of 512.
> http://www.alexpage.de/tag/usb-image-tool/

i'm not sure what tool you're using, but the image is a multiple of
512 bytes long.

        ; </n/atom/ftp/usbinstamd64.bz2 >/tmp/usbinstamd64 bunzip2
        ; ls -ltr /tmp
        --rw-rw-r-- M 788 quanstro quanstro 524288000 Dec 18 15:48 /tmp/usbinstamd64
        ; echo 524288000 % 512 | hoc
        0

perhaps something got corrupted.

the crash dump is good information but in this case the pc does not appear
to be valid, so i don't see what's wrong yet.

- erik