** Description changed: I have an old PC with non-UEFI BIOS (coreboot is also unavailable for my mainboard, the bios is updated to the latest (2008 year) version) without GPT support. Some years ago, when support for UEFI and GPT had been adopted in linux distros, troubles with booting from usb flash drive started. I tried a lot of tools (Rufus, Unetbootin, pendrivelinux, dd and startup disk creator), none of them had helped. If I type parted path/to/kubuntu/iso and then show - I get a message that GPT table signature is found. If I ask parted to treat it as GPT, it says both gpt tables are corrupt. If I ask parted to treat this as mbbbr, it prints nothing. This could be the cause of non-booting. + I get a message that GPT table signature is found. If I ask parted to treat it as GPT, it says both gpt tables are corrupt. If I ask parted to treat this as mbr, it prints nothing. This could be the cause of non-booting. + + + p.s. More fresh versions of parted (e.g. the one included into 16.04) show that there are 2 partitions, one is mac, another is efi, and the table is mac.
** Description changed: I have an old PC with non-UEFI BIOS (coreboot is also unavailable for my mainboard, the bios is updated to the latest (2008 year) version) without GPT support. Some years ago, when support for UEFI and GPT had been adopted in linux distros, troubles with booting from usb flash drive started. I tried a lot of tools (Rufus, Unetbootin, pendrivelinux, dd and startup disk creator), none of them had helped. If I type parted path/to/kubuntu/iso and then show I get a message that GPT table signature is found. If I ask parted to treat it as GPT, it says both gpt tables are corrupt. If I ask parted to treat this as mbr, it prints nothing. This could be the cause of non-booting. - - p.s. More fresh versions of parted (e.g. the one included into 16.04) show that there are 2 partitions, one is mac, another is efi, and the table is mac. + p.s. More fresh versions of parted (e.g. the one included into 16.04) + show that there are 2 partitions, one is mac, another is efi, and the + table type is mac. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1556599 Title: ISO images don't have valid partition tables To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/1556599/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
