NO EFI boot USB for MacBook Pro i7 with RC4.1 lives?

Brian C. Lane bcl at redhat.com
Tue Apr 17 15:38:28 UTC 2012


On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:45:34AM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 12:25 -0700, Thomas Gilliard wrote:
> > On 04/14/2012 09:31 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 06:51 -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
> > >> possible problem: ./tools_livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --format --efi
> > >> --overlay-size-mb 300 --home-size-mb 175 --delete-home
> > >> --unencrypted-home Fedora-17-Beta-RC4-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso /dev/sdb1
> > >> fails on 4.1 live with  "invalid token legacy boot"
> > >>
> > >> Works on RC4  Fedora-17-Beta-RC4-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso
> > >>
> > >> Result NO EFI boot USB for MacBook Pro i7 with RC4.1 lives?
> > >>
> > >> Do we need both?
> > > Works fine here. What livecd-tools are you using exactly?
> > I was using
> >   http://bit.ly/livecd-iso-to-disk
> > 
> > Which we reference in the sugarlabs.org  wiki.
> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/tools_livecd-iso-to-disk
> > I have revised the page.
> > 
> > 
> > The git version [1]solved the problem:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Run_livecd-iso-to-disk_script
> > [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_USB_stick_Live_litd
> 
> Use of livecd-iso-to-disk on a non-Fedora system isn't exactly
> supported, I don't think, and should be disclaimed as possibly
> problematic if documented. I think we prefer to advise the use of either
> livecd-creator or dd on non-Fedora problems. bcl, is that right?

s/livecd/liveusb/

Yes, dd or liveusb-creator. litd might work on other linux
distributions, but there is no effort to make sure that it does.

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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