Filling the gaps in the spec: media

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Feb 21 22:46:50 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 23:39 +0100, drago01 wrote:

> > But we currently have two different tools which have to try and get the
> > tricky work to make an image BIOS *and* UEFI *and* Mac bootable right,
> > plus we have to make the image do that right when it's dd'ed.
> 
> dd itself should be really the last resort we should use more user
> friendly tools (we have them
> in gnome-disk-utilty for instance) ... dd is pretty dangerous if you
> get the device name wrong (sdb instead of sdc or something) ... boom.

I meant a tool that just writes the image file, dd-style. Not literally
dd itself. If you read the wiki page, dd is suitably buried (except for
OS X, where it's all we've got.)
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