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 <
azanorak@gmail.com> 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.
>
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