disks having a GUID partition table (GPT) not correctly handled
Bug #1054360 reported by
Tony Gies
This bug affects 3 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNetbootin |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Under Windows 7 x64 and possibly other environments, when presented with a disk having a GUID partition table (describing a single FAT32 partition) rather than a traditional PC BIOS partition table, unetbootin 581 does not recognize this and installs the standard non-GUID-aware SYSLINUX MBR to the device, resulting in a nonbootable device.
To reproduce this, a GUID partition table may be created using gdisk or gptfdisk under Linux, or diskpart.efi under Windows.
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| Oliver Joos (oliver-joos) wrote | #1 |
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| DiagonalArg (diagonalarg) wrote | #2 |
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I saw this bug too: I created a GUID partition table with gparted of Ubuntu 12.04 by choosing "gpt". Then I ran UNetbootin which terminated successfully. But the USB stick was not bootable afterwards.