future f12 test days

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Apr 3 14:50:43 UTC 2009


On Thursday, April 02 2009, psmith said:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> livecd-iso-to-disk is a shell script that should run on basically any
>> Linux distro with syslinux installed (and people have sent patches to
>> fix up things, eg, for Ubuntu) and liveusb-creator works on Linux
>> platforms and Windows.
>>   
> but sometimes both of those don't work, as i've recently found out with  
> both the i686 gnome and xfce live f11 beta iso's, livecd-iso-to-disk nor  
> liveusb-creator create working usb images, though this may be the iso's  
> themselves that are the problem as previous versions worked with f9 and  
> f10 iso's :-/

Unfortunately, the syslinux com32 apis aren't considered stable, so the
menu modules were calling things not present in older syslinux being
used to install the bootloader.  I've hacked livecd-iso-to-disk to deal
with the problem as of yesterday and hopefully liveusb-creator will get
updated for it as well.

Jeremy




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