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Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

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Thomas Schmitt wrote:

> So you could use a partition editor to create an MBR partition of type
> "EF" which begins at 512-block 515 * 4 = 2060 and has 2,590,860 * 4 =
> 10,363,440 blocks.
> (The EFI image is probably smaller. But El Torito can mark only sizes
> up to 32 MiB or unlimited size. Microsoft decided for unlimited. So
> the only limit is the ISO's end.)
> 
> MBR partition is less tricky than GPT. If it must be GPT, then create a
> partition of the proposed start and size and Type GUID
> C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B . (Do this only if the ISO is already
> copied to USB stick. Putting GPT into the image file could overwrite its
> last few blocks by GPT backup.)

don't forget that to create UEFI bootable partition, you need to boot in
UEFI. It does not work if you boot in legacy MBR - unfortunately - it took
me 1 day to find out :)

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Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-05-03 19:00 +0200
  Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-05-03 19:30 +0200
    Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-05-03 19:40 +0200
  Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image James Medeiros <james.medeiros@gmail.com> - 2019-05-03 19:30 +0200
  Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 04:50 +0200
    Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image "Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net> - 2019-05-04 07:30 +0200
      RESOLVED: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2019-05-05 05:30 +0200
    Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-05-04 08:40 +0200
      Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 09:20 +0200
        Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-05-04 09:30 +0200
          Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 11:30 +0200
            Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-05-04 11:50 +0200
            Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-05-04 14:40 +0200
        Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2019-05-04 10:20 +0200
          Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 18:50 +0200
            Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-05-04 21:30 +0200
            Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-05-05 11:00 +0200
    Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-04 12:00 +0200
      Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-05-06 14:50 +0200
        Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-05-06 16:10 +0200

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