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[Claude Heiland-Allen <claudiusmaximus@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At a guess (and a general consideration too): the script seems to assume
that the device has a valid partition table to start with, and deletes
the partitions on it one by one.  I'm not sure if the order in which
partitions are deleted is handled correctly (extended partitions must go
before their owner primary partitions at a guess?), but I think it's the
wrong approach anyway: As the device will be wiped anyway, it might be
better to use dd to wipe the partition table to a known pristine/clean
state before starting to avoid bugging out when an unusual partition
table is encountered?

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~puredyne-
team/bouilloncube/devel/annotate/head%3A/sh/make-live-device.sh#L77

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bouilloncube fails creating partition table
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/510066
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Status in bouillon cube: New

Bug description:
sudo ./make-live-device.sh /home/karsten/iso/puredyne-910-carrot_and_coriander-DVD.iso /dev/sdb

fails with this output:

[?] Are you sure your target is /dev/sdb ? (y/n)y
[*] mounting ISO
[*] ISO file is 1172 MB
[*] force unmounting partitions from /dev/sdb
[*] erasing target's partition table
[*] creating system partition of 1222 MB
parted: invalid token: primary
Error: Expecting a file system type.
Error: Partition doesn't exist.
[*] force unmounting partition /dev/sdb1
umount: /dev/sdb1: not found
mkfs.vfat 3.0.3 (18 May 2009)
/dev/sdb1: No such file or directory
[*] creating persistence partition
parted: invalid token: primary
Error: Expecting a file system type.
[*] force unmounting partition /dev/sdb2
umount: /dev/sdb2: not found
mke2fs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
Could not stat /dev/sdb2 --- No such file or directory

The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?
[*] copying live folder
mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist
/mnt/make-live-iso ~/code/bzr/bouilloncube/sh
/mnt/make-live-device/./extra
/mnt/make-live-device/./extra/grub
/mnt/make-live-device/./extra/grub/grub.cfg
/mnt/make-live-device/./extra/grub/menu.lst
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/boot.cat
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/exithelp.cfg
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/f1.txt
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/f10.txt
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/f2.txt
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/f3.txt
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/f4.txt
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/f5.txt
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/f6.txt
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/f7.txt
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/f8.txt
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/f9.txt
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/isolinux.bin
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/isolinux.cfg
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/live.cfg
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/menu.cfg
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/prompt.cfg
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/splash.png
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/stdmenu.cfg
/mnt/make-live-device/./isolinux/vesamenu.c32
/mnt/make-live-device/./LICENSE
/mnt/make-live-device/./live
^C~/code/bzr/bouilloncube/sh /mnt/make-live-iso
[*] sylinux configuration
/dev/sdb1: No such file or directory
[*] cleaning up, unmounting and ...
umount: /mnt/make-live-device: not mounted
[*] ...done.


note the line:
parted: invalid token: primary

this is the process I use:
-plug in the stick
-stick gets automounted as /media/disk
-exectute command line above

I can fix the problem when I manually re-create a partition table as msdos and re-run the script