Description of problem: I've been using unetbootin to create bootable Mageia USB sticks for some time. My Mageia4beta1 was installed with this USB stick. This is the first time it won't boot after installing latest boot.iso. Erased USB stick and reinstalled latest boot.iso via unetbootin intending to test boot partition detection problem reported in bug 11820. Boot fails with: Failed to load libutil.c32 Failed to load COM32 file menu.c32 # ll boot.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 pfortin pfortin 28311552 Dec 4 18:26 boot.iso # ls -lR /mnt/usb /mnt/usb: total 3952 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 7 02:13 isolinux/ -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 116528 Dec 7 02:13 ldlinux.c32* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 59904 Dec 7 02:13 ldlinux.sys* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26284 Dec 7 02:13 menu.c32* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1087 Dec 7 02:13 syslinux.cfg* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 299 Dec 7 02:13 ubnfilel.txt* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3815152 Dec 4 18:22 ubnkern* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25 Dec 7 02:13 ubnpathl.txt* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 65 Dec 4 18:22 VERSION* /mnt/usb/isolinux: total 636 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1012 Dec 4 18:22 advanced.msg* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Dec 4 18:22 boot.cat* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 963 Dec 4 18:22 help.msg* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4084 Dec 4 18:22 ifcpu.c32* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38912 Dec 4 18:22 isolinux.bin* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 710 Dec 4 18:22 isolinux.cfg* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 116528 Dec 4 18:22 ldlinux.c32* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 182420 Dec 4 18:22 libcom32.c32* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 66456 Dec 4 18:22 libgpl.c32* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24024 Dec 4 18:22 libmenu.c32* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24100 Dec 4 18:22 libutil.c32* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 161964 Dec 4 18:22 memtest* drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 7 02:13 x86_64/ /mnt/usb/isolinux/x86_64: total 26448 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23261428 Dec 4 18:22 all.rdz* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3815152 Dec 4 18:22 vmlinuz* Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. reboot 2. boot from USB 3. Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs, thierry.vignaud, tmbComponent: Installer => Release (media or process)Assignee: bugsquad => ennael1Summary: boot.iso on USB won't boot => boot.iso on USB won't boot (Failed to load libutil.c32 / Failed to load COM32 file menu.c32)
I've encountered the same issue upon creation of Ubuntu(Daily_Live_x64) with UNetbootin (0-5.585.mga4). The simple fix was to copy 'libcom32.c32' and 'libutil.c32' from '/usr/lib/syslinux/' to boot drive(usb flash). --
CC: (none) => kjotov
This seems to be a result of the change in syslinux in v5, such that modules can now have dependencies in separate files. I think the problem is that menu.c32, has a dependency on libutil.c32. http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Library_modules (I'm guessing here, but maybe the version of unetbootin is too old for the version of syslinux? I have syslinux-6.02-4.mga4 unetbootin-0-5.585.mga4)
CC: (none) => mageia
unetbootin-0-5.585.mga4 On both i586 and x86_64 machines today, without checking for correct location, I simply make sure these 2 files (libutil.c32 & menu.c32) exist in both / and /isolinux folders on the usb stick and boot then works. cd <usb_mount_point> cp -a menu.c32 isolinux cp -a isolinux/libutil.c32 . Strangely, if I mount -o loop mageia/distrib/4/x86_64/install/images/boot.iso /mnt/usb there is no menu.c32 file in there -- where does it come from? Curious because simply writing boot.iso to a CD is all that's needed to install...
Source RPM: (none) => unetbootin-0-5.585.mga4
unetbootin is not supported, use dd or something else https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Installation_Media#Dump_Mageia_ISO_on_a_USB_flash_drive.3F
Summary: boot.iso on USB won't boot (Failed to load libutil.c32 / Failed to load COM32 file menu.c32) => boot.iso on USB won't boot (Failed to load libutil.c32 / Failed to load COM32 file menu.c32) with Unetbootin
Re #4, I think the bug isn't specifically "Unetbootin can't be used to install Mageia", but "Mageia's unetbootin package is broken; it cannot be used for creating any other bootable installers".
(In reply to Manuel Hiebel from comment #4) > unetbootin is not supported, Just curious... shouldn't that be stated in the package? (In reply to Richard Neill from comment #5) > Re #4, I think the bug isn't specifically "Unetbootin can't be used to > install Mageia", but "Mageia's unetbootin package is broken; it cannot be > used for creating any other bootable installers". Or more like: "Mageia's unetbootin package is broken; it cannot be used for creating working Mageia bootable installers without modification (as in comment 3)." :) The info at http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ seems to imply that the process for creating a Mageia specific unetbootin should be relatively simple. If I can find time to kickstart a Mageia version, how would I submit it?
No ideas, I just know that since mga2/3 it doesn't work anymore so...
Using isodumper, so closing this issue as invalid.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => INVALID
See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15367