Bug 27716

Summary:	ALT ISO fails to boot from USB
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Saleem Khan <drmarwat>
Component:	mkimage-profiles	Assignee:	Антон Мидюков <antohami>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	antohami, boyarsh, gns, mike
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

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).