On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 20:19:10 +0100 "Petr Menšík" <pemen...@redhat.com> wrote: > I would like to have my flash drive prepared with recent Live image. I > know how to write image to an usb drive and how to boot it. > > However, I carry 64GB large disk on my keys and I would like to have > two things: > > - bootable live image > - data partition for common files, visible from Windows > - should boot both on recent computer with UEFI preference > - should boot also on older computer with legacy boot only.
The program livecd-iso-to-disk from the package livecd-iso-to-mediums can do the first three parts. Then with a bit of care one can hack in BIOS boot support. I am not aware of an automatic tool, but basically one creates a hybrid partition table and manually installs the BIOS bootloader without disturbing the EFI one. It has been several years since I did this, and I have forgotten the details. A web search should help. Maybe a second run of livecd-iso-to-disk can do it if you do not reformat the second time. > I understand my expectations are not very low. But because the image > itself can boot on both architectures, I would hope there exist tools > able to prepare such configuration. I do not know of a canned solution. > Unfortunately, gdisk can display partition tables on image only > partially. It is not able to modify it and add another data partition > after image ends. Which were the only required step after dd > if=Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-35-1.2.iso of=/dev/sdc as I naively > thought. > > Do you know if is even theoretically possible? Are there existing > tools able to create both GPT and MBR tables, just like on Fedora > images? How are those images created? It is theoretically possible and most likely also practically possible. I think the Fedora images are created by livemedia-creator. Jim _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
