Bug 8266

Summary:	Problem to create live USB with dd
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Olivier Placais <olivier.placais>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	ISO building group <isobuild>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ennael1, gotang, mageia, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Olivier Placais 2012-12-01 16:43:38 CET

Hello,

With Mageia 1, when I create an bootable usb key, I have 2 partitions
I use the command dd if="path of iso" of=/dev/sdX bs=8M

Périphérique Amorce  Début        Fin      Blocs     Id  SystÃ¨me
/dev/sdc1         1269760    62816255    30773248    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdc2   *           1     1269759      634879+  17  HPFS/NTFS masquée

The name of the first partition (sdc1) is resize me
The bootable partition is sdc2
If I put the key in a computer on windows, I can read and store data on sdc1 without problems.

With Mageia 2 or Mageia 3, when I create a bootable key I Have that :
Périphérique Amorce  Début        Fin      Blocs     Id  SystÃ¨me
/dev/sdc1   *           1     1380351      690175+  17  HPFS/NTFS masquée
/dev/sdc2         1380352     2045951      332800    b  W95 FAT32

The bootable partition is sdc1 and Windows can't see and mount sdc2. It just want to format sdc1, who is normally hiden ?!

Is it possible for the next iso of Mageia to retrieve the fonctionnality of the Mageia 1 iso ?
I want to use the second part to store data on my key at my job (on windows).

Thanks

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2012-12-01 18:58:58 CET

know nothing about that

CC: (none) => ennael1, mageia
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

Comment 2 Olivier Placais 2012-12-21 08:46:00 CET

Hello,

I just try to make a Live usb with the live CD Mageia3-beta 1 KDE, and the problem subsist !

Same problems as above.

have a nice day.

Comment 3 Brian T 2014-02-08 13:09:42 CET

I realise that this bug is now 2 years old, but the same behaviour is still apparent with Mageia 4. It really restricts the usefulness of having a Mageia live USB stick if it can't be used as an ordinary USB key. Is there any chance of this being changed back?

CC: (none) => gotang
Version: Cauldron => 4

Comment 4 Rémi Verschelde 2015-05-02 09:44:06 CEST

I don't ever recall having the possibility to create a booting USB stick while still using it as a read/write data storage medium.

Comment 5 Thomas Backlund 2015-05-02 10:00:58 CEST

Yes, we used to create the "resize me" partition... but iirc the feature broke by a newer isohybrid, and no-one has really had time / interest in debugging / fixing it...

I do have some ideas but as usual the problem is finding the time...

Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-02 10:48:45 CEST

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
Hardware: x86_64 => All
Version: 4 => Cauldron

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2016-08-26 13:49:54 CEST

Closing as OLD because this bug saw no action since over a year ago.

Please reopen if it is still valid with Mageia6sta1 or newer

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD
Assignee: tmb => isobuild