RetroFedam I the only one?
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overcasthi, in the past I’ve got a pretty weird issue while I was getting ready to make a switch: every USB that I tried failed to boot
turns out, the “safer” way to get it out from the PC (the eject function) messed up its file system
it was long ago, but the other day I made another bootable USB and it happened again, I thought it was just a bug that would be eventually fixed it happens both for Linux Live ISOs and Windows Install Media
am I the only one?
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What are you using to flash the drive, what OS, what DE, what machine are you on and what are you trying to boot on?
Maybe not but this is for sure the first time that I read about an problem like that. Also never experienced it myself.
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After the files have copied I always run
syncto be sure then I umountYes, this exactly.
You can also use the
ejectcommand. It used the device path (eg./dev/sda), not the mountpoint.I’ve found that depending on what distro/OS it is certain methods of burning the ISO don’t work correctly, no clue why. Windows needs their official tool, so because of that i use a vm to burn it. I’ve also had linux distros that couldn’t boot when dropping it onto a ventoy drive, and would only work when directly burning it with
dd, so it might have something to do with what ISO you’re trying to burn and how you’re burning it.What are you using? Try Rufus if you aren’t using it to make the bootable media. Its my go to on Windows. Literally the GOAT.
Fedora Media Writer is the best
dd is but I’ll allow a gui app.
linux seems to have weird issues with usb drives on some configurations. let me know of your findings.
https://etcher.balena.io/
full ass browser and telemetry for a simple disk imager.. balena ether shouldn’t be recommended
Ventoy is even worse. What’s wrong with Rufus if you’re on Windows and the native distro tool on Linux/BSD?
ventoy is great for having multiple isos in one flash drive
Also great for embedding binary blobs that could tamper with isos