On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 07:40:11PM +0100, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: >Control: tag -1 moreinfo > >Hi Steve,
Hi! >> USB-bootable installer images, but these days seems responsible for >> lots of user problems and difficult-to-resolve bug reports. Using it >> for Debian CD images creates USB images that do not work correctly. >> It's not even needed any more - we've been making working iso-hybrid >> images for years now. > Can you give me pointers where those bugreports exist? Do you have >first hand experience that it's not working correctly? Admittedly most of the reports are not in the BTS, they're mails from people struggling to get things to work, or reporting odd behaviour. A quick Google search on site:lists.debian.org points to the following threads, for starters: * https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2014/08/msg00052.html * https://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2011/06/msg00104.html * https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/04/msg01259.html * https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/06/msg01064.html * https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/msg01185.html In particular, as I've been developing and improving our UEFI boot support for Wheezy and Jessie, I've had a fair number of people report problems to me directly when trying to use my test images, that went away when unetbootin was taken our of the equation. This has wasted hours of back-and-forth debug discussions in some cases. I don't see any support for UEFI in unetbootin, and other things on the net like * http://askubuntu.com/questions/374931/install-ubuntu-in-uefi-mode-unable-to-boot-from-usb * https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_flash_installation_media#Using_UNetbootin * http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2130039 back that up. This is a major issue on newer machines. >Also please note it's not a Debian specific tool. But it may exists in >Fedora as well for example. Those users may install a Debian boot to >their USB sticks. Adding a warning for our users won't warn other >users using UNetbootin. I know that, but a warning for Debian users would help too. I'm also tempted to look into how to detect unetbootin media within d-i so that we can potentially flash up a warning to the user. I *know* it may be a useful tool for some folks (and it used to be very helpful/necessary for USB stuff on older releases), but it's becoming a major PITA. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
