ISO images don't have valid partition tables
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I have an old PC with non-UEFI BIOS (Phoenix BIOS 6.00PG, coreboot is not available 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/
and then
show
and got
>Model: (file)
>Disk path/to/
>Sector size (logical/physical): 2048B/512B
>Partition Table: mac
>Disk Flags:
>Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
> 1 2048B 6143B 4096B Apple
> 2 1511MB 1513MB 2425kB EFI
(I don't know why it writes 6083MB)
fdisk --type=mbr -l ./kubuntu-
gives
>Disk ./kubuntu-
>Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>Disklabel type: dos
>Disk identifier: 0x7d4bf71d
>
>Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
>./kubuntu-
>./kubuntu-
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| affects: | usb-creator (Ubuntu) → kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
I'm not sure this is a bug, and I can successfully do this on my machine. Try seeking support on #kubuntu on IRC or by emailing <email address hidden>.
Marking as invalid until there is proof stating otherwise.