liveusb-creator and "cp - non-destructive method"

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 23:05 +0200, Giulio 'juliuxpigface' wrote:
> > Hi guys.
> > 
> > I've been trying to create a USB stick with the GUI 'liveusb
> > ---reset-mbr'. The ISO is "Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-22_Beta-TC6.iso" 
> > and
> > the USB stick is a new one (I'm almost sure it is sane).
> > 
> > There are two final results:
> > 1) The 'dd method' seems to work fine and creates a bootable device
> > 2) The 'cp method' seems to work fine, but then, after booting the
> > stick, I receive the message 'Missing Operative System'
> > 
> > Is that an intended behavior? Have you ever experienced this issue?
> > 
> > By the way, there is a similar bug report:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175514
> > 
> > But I'm sure I didn't set up an overlay.
> > 
> > Kind regards.
> > 
> > // Giulio (juliuxpigface)
> > 
> 
> 
> Well, after a hour or so of testing I found that it probably was
> something related to the way I formatted the USB stick's partition.
> 
> I checked with KDE's and Mate's ISO: the 'cp' method worked and 
> created
> bootable devices. I also did some tests with (and without) custom 
> labels
> nor boot's flag.
> 
> I was not able to reproduce the issue at all. The tool behaved as it
> should; so for me the case "QA:Testcase_USB_stick_Live LiveUSB-
> creator"
> finally passes.

The non-destructive luc method can indeed have varying results 
depending on the existing partition table and filesystems on the 
stick, yes.
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