Created attachment 813131 [details] livecd-iso-to-disk full output Description of problem: Failure to create a bootable USB stick from Fedora-20-Beta-TC4-x86_64-DVD.iso to a 16GB USB stick. The creating system is Fedora 20, up-to-date. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): livecd-tools-20.0-1.fc20.x86_64 How reproducible: DVD ISO, always. Never with live or netinst ISOs. Steps to Reproduce: 1. GPT partition a 16GB USB stick with one 16GB partition, type EF00, formatted 'mkfs.vfat -F32 -n EFI'; and then cat /usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin > device 2. livecd-iso-to-disk --noverify --efi --overlay-size-mb 1000 /run/media/chris/FATFIRE/Fedora-20-Beta-TC4-x86_64-DVD.iso /dev/sdb1 This should be ~5.9GB required. 16GB is available. After the failure, df -h reports: /dev/sdb1 15G 4.8G 11G 33% /mnt Actual results: Numerous errors by livecd-iso-to-disk rsync: read errors mapping "/media/srctmp.irOmwX/Packages/k/kde-settings-pulseaudio-20-3.fc20.1.noarch.rpm": Input/output error (5) Numerous errors in dmesg [30353.166991] attempt to access beyond end of device [30353.166994] loop0: rw=0, want=9781556, limit=8388607 Expected results: Not this. Additional info:
Created attachment 813132 [details] journal.log
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 15G 4.8G 11G 33% /mnt So it's definitely not full.
Removing the overlay option does not fix this.
Why the heck are you trying to manually setup the stick? Pass --format and --reset-mbr to litd.
Because I enjoy doing things the hard way, but that isn't the cause of this bug. The cause is user error. The original download ISO passes checksum. But it was copied to a 2nd hard drive, which was then used as the source for litd. And that 2nd hard drive partition is formatted FAT32. And the ISO is bigger than 4GB. So it's being truncated in exactly the same way each time. This is because in 2013, f'n Apple still is in the pleistocene, with read only NTFS support, making FAT32 the go between rw volume format in common between linux and OS X. I'm not sure if I'm angrier with myself or Apple right now.
FWIW with the good ISO, the original description steps produces a working USB stick. But to make my dunce cap fully complete, seeing as I'm using a non-journaled fs in FAT32, I could use the non-journaled hfsplus support in linux which is of course rw for both OS's.