Fails on unpartitioned USB stick

[Matt Zimmerman]

My USB stick looks like this:

[329648.430624] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk U3 Titanium 2.16 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[329648.473981] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 1994385 512-byte hardware sectors (1021 MB)
[329648.479271] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[329648.479284] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[329648.479290] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[329648.502266] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 1994385 512-byte hardware sectors (1021 MB)
[329648.505513] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[329648.505518] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[329648.505520] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[329648.505525] sdb:
[329648.509254] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

and has no partition table (the filesystem is directly on the device). I realize this is an unusual configuration, and so I assume that's the reason it's failing. I will add a partition table and try again to confirm. The output of usb-creator was:

perseus:[~/src/usb-creator-0.1] sudo usb-creator
mounting /home/mdz/iso/intrepid-desktop-i386.iso
new device:
{'uuid': '48A3-626B', 'label': '', 'free': 0, 'fstype': 'vfat', 'device': '/dev/sdb', 'mountpoint': '', 'udi': '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_48A3_626B'}
new device:
{'uuid': '', 'label': 'U3_System', 'free': 0, 'fstype': 'iso9660', 'device': '/dev/scd1', 'mountpoint': '', 'udi': '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_U3_System'}
property modified:
change: volume.mount_point
change: volume.is_mounted
property modified:
change: volume.mount_point
change: volume.is_mounted_read_only
change: volume.is_mounted
Installing...
installing the bootloader to /dev/sdb.
Error installing the bootloader (syslinux -s /dev/sdb)
mounting
copying from ISO...
['cp', '-ra', '/tmp/tmp3Kbh3E/.', '']
error_code 256
All done.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Confirmed, if I add a partition table, it gets further, but then I run into bug 264464.

[Evan (ev)]

usb-creator should work on an USB stick with a filesystem directly on the device. Please reopen this bug report if it's still not working for you with 0.1.4 or later.

Thanks