Попытался воспользоваться. В /media/cdrom вручную через mount -o loop примонтирован образ с live-RC. В usb вставлена гигабайтная флэшка, села она на /dev/sdh. Вот что получается при запуске: [root@threebears ALT_Linux_Desktop_4.0]# mkbootflash -v --live /dev/sdh building file list ... done ./ 16x16.fnt back.jpg boot.cat bootlogo en.hlp en.tr gfxboot.cfg init isolinux.bin isolinux.cfg kroete.dat lang languages memtest pabout.txt panim.jpg panim_a.jpg pback.jpg phead.jpg ru.hlp ru.tr syslinux.cfg text1.pcx text2a.pcx text2b.pcx text2c.pcx text3.pcx text4a.pcx text4b.pcx text4c.pcx timer_a.jpg uk.hlp uk.tr welcome.jpg alt0/ alt0/full.cz alt0/vmlinuz sent 5816262 bytes received 824 bytes 11634172.00 bytes/sec total size is 5813319 speedup is 1.00 copyng live image `/media/cdrom/live' -> `/tmp/.private/root/mkbootflash-mount.hMQpQj9641/live' making live syslinux.cnf making initrd patching file init patching file local Hunk #1 succeeded at 111 with fuzz 2. patching file 60-persistent-storage.rules mkinitrd: warning: /sys not available - hardware autodetection will not work mktemp: cannot make temp dir /tmp/.private/root/initrd.rVFbof9739: No such file or directory mkinitrd: Failed to create working directory. rsync: link_stat "/tmp/.private/root/mkbootflash-work.NfvEWo9643/initrd.img" failed: No such file or directory (2) sent 21 bytes received 20 bytes 82.00 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(980) [sender=2.6.9] syncing...
в хост-системе есть /tmp/.private/root ? То есть используется ли pam_mktemp?
Вроде все есть: [root@threebears tmp]# ll /tmp/.private/ итого 8 drwx-----T 3 root root 20 Сен 3 20:36 root/ drwxrwxrwx 14 root root 4096 Сен 3 20:33 ../ drwx-----T 10 alexei user 4096 Сен 3 20:33 alexei/
fixed in mkbootflash-0.8-alt1