-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/2013 12:43 AM, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:
It looks like your thumbdrive wasn't as stubborn as was initially suspected. Recreating the partition table made it work. What you're facing now is an issue with configuration.
My personal favourite UFD method is https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_Installation_Media#Without_overwrit...
- -- with UUID. I dislike hardcoding label names as they are likely to
change, but UUIDs are static (barring reformats).
Anyway, if you choose to stick with labels, you can also use mlabel for FAT.¹
¹ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Persistent_block_device_naming#by-label
I tried mlabel. It's apparently part of the mtools package--which is an additional package--whereas I already had dosfslabel on my system. But worse, mlabel apparently failed silently, where dosfslabel griped that "There are differences between boot sector and its backup," but this was apparently unimportant, at least for my purposes. Thanks! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRaRQmAAoJELJhbl/uPb4SisEP/3Kkoyp2B7b6mu03de4rjd3D MwcOTdb4iPM9eBWMQUgfuLhNCClnL6eWra/C39nnSHckD13xW0ZAjqmDsnWOkBtc Z+yy6Fud28KWdMLauorbPppUIiwloQpL9Q+XdsLSVyxqC3F3z74hkQodob7fFYUA tmxB5bagJNhsSCxLeI78kuOylfflQUpbV1Z63OGwbaau1UhF0B6qp+SdD+KptqpB 3TF7/Afbdi6qqnQiebxXRd38LM9QiI+UT6iuU8cymsDyCL16dCAoEFJIwtfpdAzZ CcO14KdOs7drVU4wFbFh7MBHt6owg4JHiHKQKuAIXA0kOK7dJjsvLTleMrK0BVNu aSkIdHDsxINDhJxXzosxbcxTeiA2O8Yw7gHBRZPW+DEzHM7/9L1bchoSwrwbM70o Oo82RSPj18eeejPslIYkbQrWG7DFWwX7XG80PKaiM+QtdjGKxwTHvnGSk3eWfspy rI2D9OEJisSwYAfx5raMo+m/S8WKdTd0lqMdvbk8ABD8CLrEJUJhCuqjCi7t+DZM qv4t2wYdv1qJpGdKi07ys5JJt5sC2aj1kTdfo7iPfXv4DmBkPLiCkvrsVdktDdp8 XZ/8YgZ0EdWl6K64PnXsc1ViztY1jrZJIQ2yXLveGI0VO0IXnnpf9pgmznCbFGMq SzP5TxYQvC0dCcYGczIz =pXA1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----