[Bug 1798251] Re: Cannot boot from USB pen drive

[John Bester]

** Package changed: linux (Ubuntu) => usb-creator (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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Title:
  Cannot boot from USB pen drive

Status in usb-creator package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I have not been able to successfully create a bootable USB flash drive
  for about two years using modern desktop versions of Ubuntu. This
  weekend I tried again by booting from an Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 amd64
  workstation and using ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso. The qemu test
  run seemed to boot, but after a while the boot splash screen just
  remained open. The PC I intended to do a clean install on simply
  dropped down to BusyBox. I tried various BIOS settings such as booting
  from UEFI, booting from legacy etc with no success. In the past I got
  different results on different workstations, but never got a USB stick
  booting (I forgot which version of Ubuntu this started becoming an
  issue, because I have created USB boot disks for older versions of
  Ubuntu many times). I have tried UNetbootin, MultiWriter, usb-creator-
  gtk and even tried Rufus on a Windows VM on KVM. None of the options
  worked (actually, UNetbootin did not even start up correctly). Up to
  now the workstations I built up had DVD drives, so I simply made a
  bootable CD - which has never let me down. However this last
  workstation did not have a DVD drive so in the end I booted Ubuntu
  16.04 which it had installed on a different drive and used grml-
  rescueboot to boot the ISO and perform the installation. If you google
  "Ubuntu does not boot from usb" you will find that it seems there this
  is an existing issue for many people. I would seriously consider
  having a standard USB image with grml preinstalled and allowing users
  to put whichever ISO they want to boot in a specific folder on the USB
  drive. There are a number of web sites explaining how to create a USB
  drive which is bootable in both UEFI and Legacy modes, and since
  Windows 10 ships on a single USB pen drive it should be totally
  possible to have a solution for Linux as well.

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