I really like etcher. It fails with windows based images but works like a champ for pretty much any others. On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:53 PM Jim wrote: > A few months ago I had trouble with my old Gigabyte motherboard booting > from a USB stick. I had been getting around it using the Plop > bootloader on a CD. Tonight I found a solution. I found a program > called Etcher. I used it to create a bootable USB stick which booted > the first time I tried it. > > Get it here https://www.balena.io/etcher/ > > I checked it out with KDE partition manager which said it had a 3.22 MB > FAT16 partition with the remainder of the 2GB stick listed as unknown. > Cfdisk reported the following: > > Boot start end sectors size > ID type > > /dev/sdf1 * 0 1218859 1218560 595M 0 > Empty > > /dev/sdf2 424 7023 6600 3.2M ef > EFI (FAT-12/16/32) > > Free Space 8192 3913727 3905536 1.9G > > > The Partition Magic ISO I used is 595MiB (623,902,720 bytes). > > I passed this on in the event someone else finds it useful. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen