DD doesn't work for me. It never has on linux. It creates a nonbootable brick. As a matter of fact, no tool on the linux platform used to create bootable usb drives based on an ISO image has ever worked for me. Strangely enough, unetbootin, although the bootable usb it creates is buggy, actually boots, when created on the windows platform.
go figure. On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:06:18 +0000 Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: > Source: unetbootin > Severity: serious > Tags: d-i > Justification: wasting massive amounts of developer and user time > > I've already added one wishlist bug for d-i to add code to detect > unetbootin usage and complain about it, but I've not got there > yet. unetbootin used to be a helpful tool for many people to create > 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. > > Unetbootin is wasting massive amounts of developer and user time. :-( > > Please add: > > * An entry in the Debian package description to say "Do not use > unetbootin for Debian CD images, just write them raw using dd" or > similar. > > * A runtime warning (with a similar message) if the user is > attempting to use unetbootin for a Debian CD image. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 7.8 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > >
