FC12 livecd-iso-to-disk woes - now suicidal

[T. Horsnell]

dexter wrote:
> On 8 March 2010 10:35, T. Horsnell <tsh at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I'm trying to make a USB version of the FC12 livecd.
>> I follow the instructions at:
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo
>>
>> and type (as root):
>>
>> # livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdc1
>>
>> but the resulting USB stick just gives me 'Boot Error' when I boot it.
>>
>> If I use the dd method:
>>
>> # dd if=Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=8M
>>
>> it boots correctly. I ultimately want a persistent-storage
>> area so the dd solution is no good for me.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
> try liveusb-creator then bugzilla :-)
> 
> ...dex

Well, I've so far tried all the suggestions (except bugzilla),
and *nothing* works. I must be doing something wrong.

On my FC9 with livecd-tools-0.17.3-1.fc9
Ive tried:
  livecd-iso-to-disk Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdc1
  livecd-iso-to-disk Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdc (required mkdosfs -I and mkfs.vfat -I)
  liveusb-creator Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso
and, thinking it might be a subtle difference in the iso structure,
I tried the same commands with Fedora-9-i686-Live.iso

They all failed with a 'Boot error'.

I then moved to my newly installed and updated FC12 system, with livecd-tools-031-1.fc12.1 and tried:
  livecd-iso-to-disk Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdb1
  livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdb1
  livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdb
  liveusb-creator Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso

These also failed in the same way.

The only thing that works is 'dd if=Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=8M'
and if it wasnt for this I would think either my memsticks or my bios were faulty.

If anyone out there has actually got this stuff to work on FC12, *please* would
you share the secrets. And if it failed, can we compare notes, and I'll file
a bug report.

Thanks,
Terry