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usb-creator package

USB Startup disk of Ubuntu 8.10 alternate: option "recover a broken system" does not work

Bug #317059 reported by Andreas Klien
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Ubuntu Installer Team
Ubuntu ubuntu-9.10-beta
Nominated for Jaunty by Qichang Liang

Bug Description

The fix was to simply try to modify adtext.cfg, in addition to the other configuration files.

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32671433/usb-creator-0.2.8.debdiff

Original report follows:

Binary package hint: usb-creator

Create an USB Startup Disk of the Ubuntu 8.10 alternate image (either i386 or amd64).
Then boot from it and select the "Rescue a broken system" mode.
It will let you select the language and keyboard layout, then it will fail with:
[Detect and mount CD-ROM]
Your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted. This probably means that the CD-ROM was not in the drive...

Occurs at least with the following ubuntu images:
md5sum: ea6d44667ea3fd435954d6e1f0e89122 ubuntu-8.10-alternate-amd64.iso
md5sum: f9e0494e91abb2de4929ef6e957f7753 ubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso

USB disk created with package usb-creator_0.1.10_all.deb

If the usb-creator application is only designed to work with Ubuntu 'desktop' images, it should at least inform the user of this.

See original description
Tags: iso-testing
Qichang Liang (kcleung-users)
Changed in usb-creator:
assignee: nobody → ubuntu-installer
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Qichang Liang (kcleung-users) wrote :

I am now using Jaunty alpha-6. The alternate images in jaunty also has the same problem as it insists me to insert a CDROM, although the (desktop) live CD works fine

If the script is not designed for non-liveCD, (or non-liveCD are only designed to be only in the CDROM form), ***please say so in the program***

Otherwise, we should modify either the usb-creator or the alternate and server installers to enable installation from non-CDROM removable media

Changed in usb-creator:
status: New → Confirmed
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John Franklin (hondaman-nc) wrote :

This should be addressed. I am struggling (wasting massive amounts of time) through this now.

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emilio (emiliomaggio) wrote :

still valid for alternate installer on 9.04

Evan (ev)
Changed in usb-creator (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Evan (ev)
Changed in usb-creator (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-9.10-beta
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Evan (ev) wrote :
description: updated
description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package usb-creator - 0.2.8

---------------
usb-creator (0.2.8) karmic; urgency=low

  * Modify adtext.cfg as well when adding options to the syslinux
    configuration (LP: #317059).
  * The persistence value is no longer passed around as a string. Fix a
    check that assumed it was. This was causing the persistence option
    to always be written (LP: #436207).

 -- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:13:56 +0100

Changed in usb-creator (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
tags: added: iso-testing
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