[Bug 498311] New: Live medium is written to
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498311 Summary: Live medium is written to Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Milestone 1 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Live Medium AssignedTo: coolo@novell.com ReportedBy: probono@myrealbox.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; de-de) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1 When booting the Milestone 1 live medium (USB stick), the USB stick gets written. I expect a live medium to be strictly read-only, unless the user has specifically enabled some sort of persistence feature. In my particular case, the system crashed during boot, but had written a (corrupt) .cow file to the USB stick, which made the USB stick unbootable (showing a particularly funny error message about Döner and rats). After I removed the .cow file manually, the USB stick was working again. Please do not write to the live medium unless specifically requested by the user. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Copy the contents of the Live CD to a USB stick, make it bootable with syslinux 2. Boot this stick Actual Results: The contents of the USB stick have been altered Expected Results: The USB stick has not been touched since it's expected to be read-only (in a live system) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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