by fsmithred » Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:57 am
Haven't heard that one before. I thought someone ran into a problem with the script skipping grub-install, and it might even have been me. But I can't find it in the forum or the changelog. Which version installer are you using?
Did you get a particular error message? Was the system confused about which device was /dev/sda?
The problem with using dd to put an isohybrid image on usb is that you can't make additional partitions. Or at least you couldn't do it before. The current live-manual (for jessie) says you can. And rather than use dd, they suggest using cp. (cp some.iso /dev/sdX). I haven't tried this with the newer versions of live-* packages yet.
Refracta2usb puts either the contents of the iso or the iso itself on the usb, also adds a syslinux directory and installs the syslinux bootloader onto the usb. It uses a regular fat32 partition, flagged as bootable. And it has options to do other things, too, such as create a persistent partition or persistent loopback files, create multi-boot flash drive, and more.
If you want to use refracta2usb on a stick that was previously imaged with isohybrid, you should zero the beginning of the stick first. Zero the first few megabytes of the flash drive. (2mb should be enough, but sometimes it isn't.) And you'll need one of the sid versions from the testing folder at sourceforge.