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FAT32 / NTFS + isofs on USB flash drive

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I have a bootable USB stick as shown in the screenshot: # dd if=/path/to/os_image.iso of=/dev/sdb (...everything OK...) # sudo dumpe2fs /dev/sdb dumpe2fs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014) dumpe2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock. GParted doesn't recognize any partitions. screenshot The GUI file manager reports the filesystem as isofs. The system boots and everything works fine. The problem is, I want to use the USB stick for a live OS _and_ as a storage with PCs and TVs which only recognize FAT32 and NTFS. I have tried creating two partitions, doing dd on sdb1 and making sdb1 the only bootable partition, but the system didn't boot. How to put both FAT32/NTFS and (any) bootable ISO image on an MBR-partitioned disk without using an external bootable USB creator program? I would like to simply use dd, as I do now. Presumably this could be solved using the right bootloader with the right configuration. I just don't know which bootloader and what configuration.
Asked by kyrill (154 rep)
Jul 5, 2016, 02:10 PM
Last activity: Feb 11, 2023, 06:51 PM