can't boot after using "dd" cmd to copy from another sd card

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can't boot after using "dd" cmd to copy from another sd card

Postby doubleshik » Tue Oct 20, 2015 4:52 pm

Hi everyone

I am using raspberry pi to build a cluster. Now I success to install arch and some softwares on one of the SD card. But I want to clone this SD card to other SD cards.

I tried:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'dd bs=4M if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=arch.iso') which clone the origin SD card to local filesystem
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'dd bs=4M if=arch.iso of=/dev/mmcblk0') Then I clone the iso file to new SD card.

but this not work for me, I can't boot from this new SD Card.


Then I tried:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'dd bs=4M if=/dev/mmcblk0p1 of=boot.iso') and
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'dd bs=4M if=/dev/mmcblk0p2 of=root.iso')
because I follow the instruction to divided the sd card into /boot and /root

But this not work for me,too.

Does anyone have ideas about how to copy the whole SD card to others?

Thanks a lot!
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Re: can't boot after using "dd" cmd to copy from another sd

Postby WarheadsSE » Tue Oct 20, 2015 7:51 pm

You aren't cloning from a running image, are you?
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Re: can't boot after using "dd" cmd to copy from another sd

Postby doubleshik » Wed Oct 21, 2015 3:09 am

I didn't clone the system when raspberry pi power on. I use another Linux host to copy the SD card.
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Re: can't boot after using "dd" cmd to copy from another sd

Postby sdjf » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:37 pm

You need to dd the whole card onto the second card. run "cat /proc/partitions" to see what your other linux machine has called the SD card that you want to clone. It most likely is calling it /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, or similar, with boot and root being, on the first /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, for example. So you would be dding the whole SD card instead. I have not ever had trouble doing it, except if I was trying to copy the card to one that was smaller.

So your command to create the image by dd'ing the whole card would be some variation of

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', ' dd if=/dev/sda of=alarm.img')

I also question if 4MB is a good block size, you might play it safe with more like BS=1M

And after you create the image of the whole card, you use /proc/partitions to make sure you know the correct device to dd it back on to.

EDIT: two other ways to find out the device name of external media is to examine dmesg output after inserting the media, or to look at /var/log/everything.log if that exists on the system, after insertion.
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