[syslinux] USB boot problems on Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G

Ady ady-sf at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 10 03:13:24 PST 2014


> 
> It looks like Clonezilla and Ultimate Boot CD both prescribe
> special installation procedures for USB stick.
> isohybrids can be put onto stick just by e.g.: dd of=/dev/sdb
> Make a backup of the stick if you later want to restore its
> partitioning.
> 
 
The (recent yet not latest) versions of Clonezilla that used Syslinux 
5.xx will fail in some systems when writing the isohybrid image with 
dd to the USB drive. Latest Clonezilla Live images correct this 
problem (with Syslinux 6.03-pre1), among additional booting issues 
that were resolved in the very latest testing Clonezilla release.

Recent versions of UBCD use Syslinux 4.07, which will also fail in 
some systems when using dd' to write the isohybrid image to USB 
drives. Using the included scripts or the manual methods should avoid 
these issues.


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