Hello people, Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. ápr. 15., H, 19:54): > > Hi, > > Florian Pelz wrote: > > Well this is strange. I got fine ISO images each time (fine with no > > complaints from xorriso or fdisk and bootable in QEMU without errors), > > but after dd’ing them to different USB flash drives each time I get > > kernel output when inserting the flash drive: > > [ 10.025223] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of > > the disk. > > The alternative/backup header is a property of GPT which makes it > rather unsuitable for disk images. xorriso puts it correctly into the > last 512-byte block of the image. But when copied to a storage device, > it should move up to the last block of the device. > Even worse, the main GPT header at 512-byte LBA 1 needs to learn the > new address. >
Yes, this is a really painful point. Could we create a simple tool to write the disk images to a disk correcting this problem? Does not look too hard? I am also forwarding this to guix devel. I removed the xorriso bug list, as I feel this does not belong there. Best regards, g_bor
