https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803078 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803078#c6 --- Comment #6 from Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com> 2013-02-18 08:55:44 UTC --- Doh. The drive _is_ an hybrid. As I was mounting it to perform the test you asked for, I mistyped the command and mounted /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1. It should have failed, but worked: /dev/sdb on /mnt/usb type iso9660 (ro,relatime) This must be related to the history of this particular USB thumbdrive. Originally I had dumped the openSUSE 12.2 DVD on it. Then I found that changes done to live instances were no longer persistent, and went for a regular installation instead. Apparently some data from the previous installation is still present on the media. I can read some of the text files from the iso9660 mount, while others are corrupted (as expected, given that /dev/sdb1 occupies the whole space and holds the new installation.) This definitely explains why grub2-install goes into iso9660-related code at all. Partition Table for /dev/sdb First Last # Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flag -- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------- ---- Pri/Log 0 2047* 0# 2048*Free Space None 1 Primary 2048* 15644671* 0 15642624*Linux (83) Boot Pri/Log 15644672* 15644911* 0 240*Free Space None The drive was partitioned that way by the openSUSE 12.2 installation system. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.