Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, November 11, 2011 03:23:44 PM phanisvara das wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:13:14 +0530, Freek de Kruijf
>
> <f.de.kruijf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On vrijdag 11 november 2011 05:12:57 Roger Luedecke wrote:
> > > On Thursday, November 10, 2011 07:59:16 PM Brian K. White wrote:
> > > > I never had any issue with swap. I usually don't make any in the
> > > > partitioning screen and that's that. I've never used the new
> > > > liveusb
> > > > though, so of course that probably has new things it does
> > > > different
> > >
> > > from
> > >
> > > > the regular net iso.
> > >
> > > Yeah, I'm not even getting to the point of running the installer
> > > because of
> > > the partitioning/swap issue. But clearly it alters the USB in some
> > > fashion
> > > after the first boot. For that matter, the first time I ran live I
> > > didn't
> > > so much as start the installer. But it still screwed up the sticks
> > > ability
> > > to boot.
> >
> > You are probably using an USB stick with 1GB. The KDE Live image on a
> > USB
> > stick tries use the remaining space on the stick and put there a
> > partition
> > with the name hybrid. However on a 1 GB stick this partition is not
> > large
> > enough. So you end up with a non-bootable stick. If you use a 2 GB stick
> > it
> > will work. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728261
> > Because there are more problems with this hybrid, hybrid has been
> > removed from
> > the Live image for GM. So the GM Live image will be usable on a 1 GB USB
> > stick.
>
> i've had the same happen to me, using an 8GB stick. that 'hybrid'
> partition was created, and after being used to start a live session once,
> it didn't boot again and i had to re-write the stick. something doen't
> work as expected, i'm afraid. (this wasn't one of the latest isos, though,
> a month or so ago.)
I had the same problem with 11.3 as well if I recall correctly. Its an old 
issue.
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