On 06/25/2015 03:32 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 06/25/2015 11:33 AM, jd1008 wrote:
> I bought the usb drive brand new and had not installed anything
> on it. Just partitioned it and used it.
> So, how could it contain any boot code?
> Is this what manufacturers do by default? I had not encountered
> this issue you raise before.
Have a look at it:
dd if=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1 | od -c
Does it have anything other than nul bytes?
OK, here is the output.
Is the ; \0 305 033 the cause of the problem for BIOS?
# dd if=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1 | /usr/bin/od -c
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
446 bytes (446 B) copied, 4.7578e-05 s, 9.4 MB/s
0000000 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
*
0000660 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 ; \0 305 033 \0 \0
0000676