Bug 12902 - Mageia-3-i586-DVD.iso makes flash drive with strange partition setup
Summary: Mageia-3-i586-DVD.iso makes flash drive with strange partition setup
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Version: 3
Hardware: i586 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Reported: 2014-02-28 02:03 CET by w unruh
Modified: 2014-02-28 02:27 CET (History)
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Description w unruh 2014-02-28 02:03:04 CET 
Description of problem: Created a flash drive containing 
Mageia-3-i586-DVD.iso using dd
dd if=Mageia-3-i586-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M

The resulting drive has one partition, /dev/sdc1 but that partition is umountable and does not seem to exist. However if I mount /dev/sdc I get a reasonable directory structure.
mount /dev/sdc /media/disk
ls /media/disk
./  ../  autorun.inf  boot.catalog  dosutils/  i586/

If I try to use that usb stick as a drive containing the installation material for a CD boot.iso installation, it sees only the /dev/sdc1 partition, which it cannot mount. (The computer cannot boot from a usb device, so I had to try to go through this flash drive route.) 

Ie, the partition structure that a dd copy of  Mageia-3-i586-DVD.iso seems to create on the flash drive seems to be defective. 







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Comment 1 Thomas Backlund 2014-02-28 02:27:30 CET 
Its not defective, its a hybrid iso so you can boot direct from the usb stick

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => tmb
Resolution: (none) => INVALID
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