[Bug 432532] Re: Support writing the image to disks that are spanned by a vfat filesystem (no partition table)

[Wayne Schuller]

Would doing this improve the probability of success booting on newer mac
systems?

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Title:
  Support writing the image to disks that are spanned by a vfat
  filesystem (no partition table)

Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: usb-creator

  Given that USB booting is hit or miss as it is, we should support
  disks that have a vfat filesystem spanning them, rather than just
  disks that have a partition table with a vfat partition.  Currently,
  usb-creator flags disks without partitions as needing to be formatted.

  Initial tests show that at least some BIOSes support booting from a
  device without a partition table.

  The format button will continue to create a partition table and single
  vfat partition, as the largest subset of BIOSes seem to support that
  configuration.

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