[arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

David Benfell benfell at parts-unknown.org
Sat Apr 13 04:15:34 EDT 2013


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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_overwriting_the_USB_drive
>
>
> 
- -- 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!

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