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.
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
Last activity: Feb 11, 2023, 06:51 PM