[Bug 312709] Re: Pendrive boot disk works only once

[cjcolella]

I know this is closed, but since 10.10, I have experienced the same
problem. Subsequent boots (after the first successful boot) off the USB
fail everytime. There are no special steps to reproduce this bug. I have
to reinstall the ISO every time I want to boot off the USB.

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Title:
  Pendrive boot disk works only once

Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: usb-creator

  Steps to reproduce:

  1) In Gnome-Ubuntu, choose Menu -> System -> Adminstration -> Create a
  USB startup disk.

  2) Set up one using a downloaded jaunty alpha 2 ISO.

  3) Set the disk's extra space to 128 MB.

  4) Write the thing to a 2 GB pendrive.

  5) Boot from it.

  What I would expect:

  - Additional boots work the same way as the first one.

  What actually happens:

  - The first boot is fine, successive boots or reboots fail.

  Diagnosis:

  - For all operations, the pen drive stays in it's USB port.

  - In one case there was a kernel panic, in another one X didn't come
  up. Typing "startx" gave an empty desktop, only.

  - I tarred the stick before the first boot and after a failed, second
  attempt. Then:

    mah at piccard:~$ tar -tvjf jumpST*orig* >orig.txt
    mah at piccard:~$ tar -tvjf jumpST*nach* >nach.txt
    mah at piccard:~$ diff -u orig.txt nach.txt 
    --- orig.txt	2008-12-30 22:44:55.000000000 +0100
    +++ nach.txt	2008-12-30 22:48:00.000000000 +0100
    @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
    -drwx------ mah/root          0 2008-12-30 17:57 JUMPSTICK/
    +drwx------ mah/root          0 1970-01-01 01:00 JUMPSTICK/

  This is the only difference. Obviously, the volume's modification date
  got lost.

  I'm not exactly convinced such a minor difference makes a drive
  unbootable, but experience tells a different story so far.

  Additions:

  mah at piccard:~$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
  Release:	8.10
  mah at piccard:~$ apt-cache policy usb-creator
  usb-creator:
    Installiert: 0.1.10
    Kandidat: 0.1.10
    Versions-Tabelle:
   *** 0.1.10 0
          500 http://ubuntu.intergenia.de intrepid/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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