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bug#33639: ISO installer image is broken on i686
From: |
Gábor Boskovits |
Subject: |
bug#33639: ISO installer image is broken on i686 |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:57:45 +0200 |
Hello people,
Thomas Schmitt <address@hidden> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. ápr. 15., H, 19:54):
>
> Hi,
>
> Florian Pelz wrote:
> > Well this is strange. I got fine ISO images each time (fine with no
> > complaints from xorriso or fdisk and bootable in QEMU without errors),
> > but after dd’ing them to different USB flash drives each time I get
> > kernel output when inserting the flash drive:
> > [ 10.025223] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of
> > the disk.
>
> The alternative/backup header is a property of GPT which makes it
> rather unsuitable for disk images. xorriso puts it correctly into the
> last 512-byte block of the image. But when copied to a storage device,
> it should move up to the last block of the device.
> Even worse, the main GPT header at 512-byte LBA 1 needs to learn the
> new address.
>
Yes, this is a really painful point.
Could we create a simple tool to write the disk images to a disk
correcting this problem?
Does not look too hard?
I am also forwarding this to guix devel. I removed the xorriso bug
list, as I feel this does not belong there.
Best regards,
g_bor
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- bug#33639: ISO installer image is broken on i686, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/04/14
- bug#33639: ISO installer image is broken on i686, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/04/15
- bug#33639: ISO installer image is broken on i686, Thomas Schmitt, 2019/04/15
- bug#33639: ISO installer image is broken on i686,
Gábor Boskovits <=
- bug#33639: ISO installer image is broken on i686, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/04/16
- bug#33639: ISO installer image is broken on i686, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/04/17