Raspbian Jessie Lite IMG problem

[marionee]

Hello,
in the last release 2017-06-21 of Raspbian Lite there is an issue with the IMG file.
The problem is that file is not aligned on 512 bytes (the smallest sector size). I presume someone made a mistake when creating it. If you pad it out with zeros to be a multiple of 512 bytes then it would work again.
Best regards.

[ShiftPlusOne]

Could you elaborate? What are you seeing and what are you expecting to see (exact numbers)?

[marionee]

ls -l

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-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     1297862656 Apr 10 10:58 2017-04-10-raspbian-jessie-lite.img
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     1304672023 Jun 26 09:14 2017-06-21-raspbian-jessie-lite.img

fdisk -l
Disk 2017-04-10-raspbian-jessie-lite.img: 1.2 GiB, 1297862656 bytes, 2534888 sectors
Disk 2017-06-21-raspbian-jessie-lite.img: 1.2 GiB, 1304671744 bytes, 2548187 sectors

the last img file has 279 bytes over.

[ShiftPlusOne]

The size of the image doesn't matter. It would just mean that a few extra bytes get written when the image is dd'ed, but that's about it.

[marionee]

In order to fix it i execute the following command:

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dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=233 >> 2017-06-21-raspbian-jessie-lite.img

[ShiftPlusOne]

That doesn't accomplish anything.

[B.Goode]

in the last release 2017-06-21 of Raspbian Lite there is an issue with the IMG file.

Just as another user who has not yet tried this recent image, can I ask what the actual 'issue' is here?

Can the image be successfully 'flashed' to a microSD card?

Does the resulting microSD card subsequently boot up normally in an RPi?

[marionee]

I cannot use the last image with "Image for Linux" http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux.htm
It check if the file is not aligned on 512 bytes (the smallest sector size) and give me an error.
In order to make it work i have to manually add the missing 233 bytes.

[jahboater]

I cannot use the last image with "Image for Linux" http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux.htm
It check if the file is not aligned on 512 bytes (the smallest sector size) and give me an error.
In order to make it work i have to manually add the missing 233 bytes.

Why not just use dd (or etcher) which don't have any daft requirements like that? (And are free - in particular dd is included as standard in all Linux's). You have used dd anyway.

To reiterate whats already been said, the file size has nothing to do with "alignment".

[jahboater]

in the last release 2017-06-21 of Raspbian Lite there is an issue with the IMG file.

Just as another user who has not yet tried this recent image, can I ask what the actual 'issue' is here?

There is no issue.
Just a strange piece of software that expects the image to be an exact multiple of 512 bytes in size.

2017-06-21 Raspbian Lite works fine.

[marionee]

Thanks, all of you.