Live-build creates unbootable usb-hdd images.

[Wagner Volanin]

The usb-hdd images created with live-build do NOT have the first partition flagged as bootable. This way, when the image is copied to a pendrive, it will not boot in some BIOSes. When lb_usb_binary script sets the boot flag, the image is mounted as a loop device *with* an offset (thus accessing the contents of the first partition). This is wrong. It should set the boot flag earlier, when the image is mounted as a loop device *without* an offset (thus accessing the mbr). The fix is trivially simple, and a patch is attached.

What is expected to happen:
The lb_binary_usb script should flag the first partition as bootable in the image mbr.

What happened instead:
The lb_binary_usb script sets the boot flag in the wrong moment, and as such it does not work.

Using Ubuntu Precise 12.04 amd64.
Live-build 3.0~a24-1ubuntu32.

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.