Bug 491234

Summary:	livecd-iso-to-disk shouldn't ask to overwrite boot loader
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Warren Togami <wtogami>
Component:	livecd-tools	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	11	CC:	davidz, katzj
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Description Warren Togami 2009-03-19 23:07:04 UTC

livecd-tools-022-1.fc11
syslinux-3.73-2.fc11
mtools-4.0.9-1.fc11

Use livecd-iso-to-disk with on a USB stick already written previously by livecd-iso-to-disk.

Updating boot config file
Installing boot loader
file is read only, overwrite anyway (y/n) ? 

Processes running at this time:
/usr/bin/livecd-iso-disk --noverify --skipcopy --reset-mbr livecd.iso /dev/sdb1
syslinux -d syslinux /dev/sdb1
mmove -D o -D O s:/ldlinux.sys s:/syslinux/ldlinux.sys

There is no good reason for the program to ask for permission to overwrite this file.  It seems that mtools changed to prompt instead of just go ahead.

I couldn't figure out how to use mattrib to unprotect ldlinux.sys prior to syslinux tries to install it again.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2009-03-20 14:48:11 UTC

Fixed in git, although the fix is ugly.

Comment 2 Warren Togami 2009-04-05 04:30:56 UTC

I just noticed this still happens in rawhide, was this not built into rawhide yet?

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2009-04-06 14:08:41 UTC

Has there been a new livecd-tools build since the 20th? (answer: no)

I'll get a build before the devel freeze, but this is hardly critical enough on its own to have warranted special builds

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 12:25:24 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2009-07-21 18:31:25 UTC

Closing out bug that's been in MODIFIED for a while.