Bug 27716 - ALT ISO fails to boot from USB
Summary: ALT ISO fails to boot from USB
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Sisyphus
Classification: Development
Component: mkimage-profiles (show other bugs)
Version: unstable
Hardware: all Linux
: P3 normal
Assignee: Антон Мидюков
QA Contact: qa-sisyphus
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Reported: 2012-09-08 17:05 MSK by Saleem Khan
Modified: 2013-01-14 22:02 MSK (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Saleem Khan 2012-09-08 17:05:20 MSK
I tested 5 different official and unofficial ALT Linux isos writing them to a USB  and after isolinux menu there is a message that the cd rom could not be loacted so u want to retry, if choose no it will look for usb source and fails to find it as well even that the image has been booted from a usb.
Comment 1 Michael Shigorin 2012-09-08 17:08:04 MSK
The images are hybrid ISO indeed but looks like something's wrong with propagator (which has been patched to cope with an ISO booting off a USB flash).
Comment 2 Michael Shigorin 2012-11-18 23:25:42 MSK
Please try one of these if the hardware at hand is x86_64: http://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/ALT/people/mike/iso/mkimage-profiles/efi/ -- the images have somewhat different isohybrid processing.

I can also reprocess any existing image you'd be interested in.
Comment 3 Michael Shigorin 2013-01-14 22:02:52 MSK
There are newer installable LiveCDs including KDE4:
http://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/ALT/people/mike/iso/mkimage-profiles/half-/

x86_64 images are UEFI bootable, and tomorrow's crop should also be able to deal with SecureBoot to some extent either.  These are also hybrid (dd to a flash).