>From my last comment I can report that both latest xubuntu 20.x is not able to
>update files during installation of image. I checked partition table and boot
>settings, and it seems that GRUB breaks while updating files during
>installation.
Image of standard release of Ubuntu 20.x is able to u
Trying to install xubuntu-20.10 desktop installs fine, no errors reported.
Operating system is missing.
Previous version of xubuntu installed fine and booted fine.
Just for fun i tried to install ubuntu-20.04.1 desktop, and it install fine, no
errors reported.
With this image it boots fine.
Lapto
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+ [Impact]
+ Some buggy BIOSes may fail to properly boot following the chosen boot order,
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+ (requires booting in BIOS mode)
+ - Attempt to boot an Ubuntu image on a USB drive on an affected system.
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I'm reviving this report since the issue is still present in 14.04 and
15.10 syslinux, which is used in the various flavour hybrid ISOs, via
mbr/isohdpfx.{S,bin}
The same system I originally reported in comment #30 is still affected.
Original upstream discus
DjznBR: Your issue may be caused by allowing the PC to boot the
installer image using Legacy/BIOS mode, rather than its native UEFI
mode.
ISO Desktop images are hybrid; that is they are configured to boot in
any of three different modes:
1. In UEFI mode using the Simple Boot Path (EFI/BOOT/BOOTX6
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I recently purchased a GA-990XA-UD3 and experienced this problem.
This is an UEFI board, with support for Legacy boot, etc.
I had no problems creating a TAILS persistent USB flash disk, within TAILS DVD.
It booted normally from USB.
But then, when I used a Sandisk Cruzer Blade (another flash driv
The attachment "Include alternative MBR images in packages" seems to be
a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug
report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. If
the attachment isn't a patch, please remove the "patch" flag from the
attachment, remove
** Description changed:
I'm reviving this report since the issue is still present in 14.04 and
15.10 syslinux, which is used in the various flavour hybrid ISOs, via
mbr/isohdpfx.{S,bin}
The same system I originally reported in comment #30 is still affected.
Original upstream discus
Replacing the original isohdpfx.bin in sector 0 of the USB mass storage
device containing the Desktop ISO image of 14.04 and 15.10 with the
alternative isohdpfx_c.bin provides the desired workaround: Holding down
Ctrl as the bootstrap code is loaded by the BIOS forces use of drive
0x80 and the ISO
syslinux (3:6.03+dfsg-8ubuntu3) wily; urgency=medium
* Revert "Also skipping isohd*x_{c,f}.bin in syslinux-common" (LP:
#277903)
-- TJ Sat, 26 Sep 2015 18:23:12 +0100
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/277903/+atta
** Description changed:
I'm reviving this report since the issue is still present in 14.04 and
15.10 syslinux, which is used in the various flavour hybrid ISOs, via
mbr/isohdpfx.{S,bin}
The same system I originally reported in comment #30 is still affected.
- The patch that was appli
** Also affects: ubuntu-cdimage
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
I'm reviving this report since the issue is still present in 14.04 and
15.10 syslinux, which is used in the various flavour hybrid ISOs, via
mbr/isohdpfx.{S,bin}
The same system I origin
** Description changed:
- Binary package hint: usb-creator
+ I'm reviving this report since the issue is still present in 14.04 and
+ 15.10 syslinux, which is used in the various flavour hybrid ISOs, via
+ mbr/isohdpfx.{S,bin}
- Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch + Final
- Releas
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 273477
usb stick is not made bootable
** No longer affects: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 273477 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273477
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On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 10:53 +, Anders Häggström wrote:
> The output from the diagnostic MBR (the link from TJ on 2009-03-30) when
> I hold CTRL-key own during boot is: "L D80 C07C HFF S3F P1 O003F
> MAA55 E00". I have no clue of what that means but I hope it is valuble
> for TJ. :)
Here's
I am also affected by this bug. I booted Ubuntu 9.04-i386 image from CD. To be
sure the usbdrive is empty i run the following command first:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc
After dd was finished cleaning the usbdrive I run the tool "USB disk
creator" and formatted the usbdrive from within the
I've added optimisations to reduce byte-count. Attached updated debdiff,
mbr.bin and mbr-diag.bin
** Attachment removed: "debdiff for Jaunty (and Intrepid)"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24535200/syslinux_3.63%2Bdfsg-2ubuntu4.debdiff
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** Attachment added: "Diagnostic MBR"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24548023/mbr-diag.bin.gz
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http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24522301/mbr.bin.gz
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http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24548012/mbr.
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Here's a debdiff against the current package to create the new MBR.
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I'm attaching the diagnostic MBR so users can test whether their system
is affected and, more importantly, report the actual values their PC's
BIOS is using.
Installing it is the same process as the instructions above, but using
"mbr-diag.bin.gz" and "mbr-diag.bin". The MBR will produce a *very*
c
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I've debugged this issue by creating a diagnostic MBR (see
http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2009-March/011906.html) that reports
the values the BIOS passes (see
http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2009-March/011876.html).
It transpires that the system BIOS has a bug (in this case a Phoenix
BIOS).
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Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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I'm going to repeat here my findings that I originally attached to bug
#293083 "USB startup thumb drive fails to boot" since the discovery
could point to some users being affected by a BIOS bug.
If I remove the hard drive from the system, rather than just change the
BIOS boot order so USB is trie
@Dennis
@Copter
this worked for me too!
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I confirm that this method also solved my problem. Using 2GB stick on MSI Wind
U100x.
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Here is what fixed it for me: Deleting the original (FAT32) Partition on
the USB pen drive. The Wizard will then allow you to "Format" the stick.
Doing that solved it for me.
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I also see the 'No operating system' from the bios. If it is the same
underlying problem, I don't know.
Mine went away using the Windows version of syslinux with the -m switch (to
install to MBR) on the pendrive.
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I did have one difference from the blog.
After executing all the fdisk-related commands, there was a warning-type
message that informed me that the kernel was still using the old
structures. So before continuing on and creating the partitions with
Gparted, I first restated my computer to assure my
I still facing the problem even reformatting and partitioning as said in
the mentioned blog. I am using a Kingston 8GB DataTraveler 100 Model and
this is its partition info:
ubu...@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
Orden (m para obtener ayuda): p
Disco /dev/sdb: 8027 MB, 8027897856 bytes
255 cabezas
FYI...
I was having problems using UNetbootin with an iso for Linpus Linux Lite
on a 1GB JetLinx flash drive. So I decided to follow the same
reformatting and partitioning that fixed my problem here...and it
worked! There is something about that procedure described on the
ubuntuliving blog that
I also tried manishmahabir's solution (from the ubuntuliving blog) and
it worked for me :)
I have a 8GB Corsair Voyager (with ready boost...which was a bad
purchase since I on use Ubuntu now instead of Windows). The live USB
worked on many computers except for one Dell desktop for which I was
giv
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Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
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usb-creator:
Installed: 0.1.7
(for some reason, running "usb-creator --version" gives me 0.1.5)
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Release: 8.10
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Installed: 0.1.7
(for some reason, running "usb-creator --version" gives
I tried manishmahabir's solution. (In fact, I think it's equivalent to
what I tried before.) No joy.
The "works on a 2GB Kingston drive" data point is relevant, however.
Maybe size matters. Has anyone gotten it to work on a 16GB Kingston
drive? On any 16GB or larger drive?
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@Bob
I don't think you need to use a different model
i had the same problem with a 2 GB kingston drive
i followed the workaround here and it worked!
http://ubuntuliving.blogspot.com/2008/11/missing-operating-system-step-by-step.html
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I reported the syslinux bug before ibex release, but no one looked at it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslinux/+bug/270822
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Oops. I meant "GB", of course.
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I worked about the problem by using a different model of thumb drive.
The boot failure happened only with a 16MB Kingston drive, but 2MB and
8MB SanDisk "Cruzer" drives work just fine.
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By persistent do you mean being able to save data back to the USB Drive
once you have booted from it? If so, I think this is possible as I
recall that option in UNetBootin but have not tested it as I was just
creating a bootable USB drive for the purpose of installation.
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After checking some howto's on making bootable flash drives, I think the
possible cause of this problem is that a default installation of 8.10
has syslinux 3.63 instead of the 3.71 (the required version for the
howto's). "If you use [a] version earlier than 3.71 to do the following
command, the cre
@Ronald
Is it possible to make it persistent with the help of unetbootin?
can somebody confirm whether the solution mentioned at the link mentioned below
works?
http://ubuntuliving.blogspot.com/2008/11/missing-operating-system-step-
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I would like to confirm this bug and the workaround posted by ronald.
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As a work around, I used the UNetBootin
(http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) application to create a bootable
USB Drive and it worked perfectly.
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same problem for me.
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I can confirm that this happens to me as well. I have tried multiple
operating systems on my Flash drive. Fedora 9, gOs Gadgets and Linux
Mint - all return "Missing operating system" at boot time...
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I have the same problem as David. I set the LBA flag with gparted, but at boot
the system tells "pendrive without operating system.".
Disco /dev/sdb: 8027 MB, 8027897856 byte
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 976 cylinders
Units = cilindri of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x04030201
D
I know I shouldn't do this myself, but two people have confirmed this
bug since reporting.
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I'm getting this with latest version
$ apt-cache show usb-creator
Package: usb-creator
Installed-Size: 192
Architecture: all
Version: 0.1.9
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Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
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usb-creator:
Installed: 0.1.7
(for some reason, running "usb-creator --version" gives me 0.1.5)
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I have a feeling this maybe a duplicat
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Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
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usb-creator:
Installed: 0.1.7
(for some reason, running "usb-creator --version" gives me 0.1.5)
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I just used gparted to turn my disk's LBA flag on, and I would still get
the error message.
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After looking at the above posts, I noticed that their flash drives have the
LBA flag. After turning on this flag [to my flash drive] with gparted the flash
drive boots!
Should usb-creator have enabled that flag during setup? If so, the bug is more
about the LBA flag than anything else...
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Confirmed, repartitioning fixed the problem:
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 4063 MB, 4063232000 bytes
254 heads, 16 sectors/track, 1952 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4064 * 512 = 2080768 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0008e42c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/d
I get a similar problem. After choosing USB Removable Media (or similar)
as the bootable device I get "Invalid or damaged Bootable partition" (I
don't know why the B is capitalized).
I ran usb-creator with and without -s and in both cases the end result
was the same. I'm using the ubuntu-8.04.1-de
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