** Summary changed:
- Live USB created on OCZ ATV / Rally 2 fails to boot
+ Live USB with persistent boot options fails to boot
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: usb-creator
I've been trying to get Ubuntu Jaunty to install a live CD to my
thumbdrive for several days. I've been doing the same thing for a
while:
1. Go to System > Administration > USB Startup Disk Creator
- 2. Select an Ubuntu image (tried jaunty beta, jaunty daily, and 8.04.2)
- 3. Choose to store some amount of data in reserved extra space (created as
casper-rw in the root of the thumbdrive)
+ 2. Select an Ubuntu image (tried jaunty beta i386 and jaunty daily i386)
+ 3. Choose to store some amount of data in reserved extra space (created as
casper-rw in the root of the thumbdrive, and also adds the "persistent" boot
option to the kernel tags)
4. Reboot, boot from thumbdrive, and choose the first option labeled "Try
Ubuntu without any change to your computer."
5. Press ctrl+alt+f1 to see what's happening
6. Watch various logs repeat over and over, which are different depending on
the computer.
6a. When booting from a computer with a floppy drive and Windows
installed, I get messages about IO errors on fd0.
6b. On computers running jaunty + ext4, messages refer to ext4fs
mballoc.
6c. From Qemu in Windows, messages refer to a DRDY IRQ ERR
- 7. Drop to BusyBox shell at (initramfs).
+ 7. Drop to BusyBox shell at (initramfs) shortly after attempting to load the
persistent file.
+ 8. Reboot and press F6 to change the boot options. Delete the word
persistent. Problem solved.
- This problem went away after formatting the drive or deleting all files
- from the drive that were placed there by Ubuntu's usb-creator and then
- reinstalling Ubuntu *WITHOUT* the persistent home / casper-rw option.
-
- edit: I booted successfully a few times, and now my thumbdrive is
- appearing as read-only. :(
+ I've tested this with both the Ubuntu USB Creator and with Unetbootin on
+ Jaunty, while trying to create a Jaunty Live USB.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: usb-creator 0.1.15
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: usb-creator
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
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Live USB with persistent boot options fails to boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/358881
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