Posted on Jul 4, 2017
ISO Image Writer - A Reliable Bootable USB Creator for Linux
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SGT (Join to see) The problem I have with UNetbootin is the UEFI bios. About 2-3 times that I make a bootable ISO with UNetbootin, it will not be recognized as bootable in the UEFI Bios. Whereas I have not had any problems with those created by Etcher.
The downside with Etcher and other tools like this, is that they seem to create a weird partition table on the drive. This causes a block size error. Linux and Windows will report that the drive is bigger than it is, and you can't reformat, do any maintenance, or change the distrobution on the drive. To fix this in Linux, you need to go to the terminal and type:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/(mount point of USB drive here) bs=2048 count=32
Now you can use your favorite disk management tool to work on the drive.
The downside with Etcher and other tools like this, is that they seem to create a weird partition table on the drive. This causes a block size error. Linux and Windows will report that the drive is bigger than it is, and you can't reformat, do any maintenance, or change the distrobution on the drive. To fix this in Linux, you need to go to the terminal and type:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/(mount point of USB drive here) bs=2048 count=32
Now you can use your favorite disk management tool to work on the drive.
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SGT (Join to see)
Awesome! How did you come across this Etcher? I've been thinking UNetbootin was the best one since day one.
https://etcher.io/
https://etcher.io/
Burn images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.
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SSgt Mark Lines
SGT (Join to see) They talked about it on the Podnutz "The Mini PC Show", Episode #51, podcast. They said it was the most reliable way they found to make bootable sd cards for the Raspberry Pi.
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