sys-boot/unetbootin Available versions: 356 372 (~)377 Hello, I've tried all three versions - same results. When trying to boot from the usb i get. "This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and press any key to try again..." on other distribution this tool works ok. tried on x86 and amd64 - same results Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge unetbootin make a live usb linux distribution
Please add "emerge --info sys-boot/unetbootin" and extend the steps to reproduce to a procedure one can actually follow step by step and end up with something broken.
emerge --info sys-boot/unetbootin Portage 2.2_rc46 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_@_2.93GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:45:03 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.3 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.pw.edu.pl/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j6 -l8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/portage/working" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/kde-testing /usr/local/portage/layman/dottout /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk hal iconv isdnlog jpeg kde lm_sensors logrotate mmx modules mozdevelop mp3 mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia offensive opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtsp session spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification sysfs tcpd tiff truetype twolame unicode upnp vdpau virtualbox vorbis x264 xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel-hda" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-boot/unetbootin-377 was built with the following: USE="(multilib)" ****** steps: run unetbootin select gentoo_live_x86_64 build the usb reboot
You will have to do better than that and perhaps drop the bad attitude... All three versions works fine here and you are not providing nearly enough information (about the pen drive, about the filesystem on the pen drive, about the "other distribution", and so on).
bad attitude, me? maybe you should check the forums http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-795887-highlight-unetbootin.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-795505-highlight-unetbootin.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-714757-highlight-unetbootin.html and maybe your is the only computer on which unetbootin works. I've tried using 5 different usbsticks "the last one is a sandisk cruzer micro 16gb" all of them are formatted vfat32 with ubuntu livecd or opensuse unetbootin unetbootin works. any other questions?
here is my sislinux.cfg default vesamenu.c32 prompt 0 menu title UNetbootin timeout 100 label unetbootindefault menu label Default kernel /ubnkern append initrd=/ubninit root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc dokeymap looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot vga=791 label ubnentry0 menu label gentoo kernel /gentoo.efimg.mountPoint/gentoo append initrd=/gentoo.efimg.mountPoint/gentoo.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc dokeymap looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot vga=791 label ubnentry1 menu label gentoo-nofb kernel /gentoo.efimg.mountPoint/gentoo append initrd=/gentoo.efimg.mountPoint/gentoo.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc dokeymap looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot label ubnentry2 menu label memtest86 kernel /isolinux/memtest86 append initrd=/ubninit
(In reply to comment #3) > You will have to do better than that and perhaps drop the bad attitude... All <flame_on> Please don't blame users, they report as they can. </flame_off> I found the root of this problem, it's sys-fs/mtools-3.9.10 buggy config, it has been changed with recent release. There is the output: bash# syslinux /dev/sdc1 Syntax error at line 3 column 0 in file /etc/mtools/mtools.conf: unrecognized keyword syslinux: failed to create ldlinux.sys unetbootin must be running it without checking a return code. Just comment out line 3 like it used to be: #SAMPLE FILE
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 233741 ***
(In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #3) > > You will have to do better than that and perhaps drop the bad attitude... All > > <flame_on> Please don't blame users, they report as they can. </flame_off> > > I found the root of this problem, it's sys-fs/mtools-3.9.10 buggy config, it > has been changed with recent release. There is the output: > bash# syslinux /dev/sdc1 > Syntax error at line 3 column 0 in file /etc/mtools/mtools.conf: unrecognized > keyword > syslinux: failed to create ldlinux.sys > > unetbootin must be running it without checking a return code. > Just comment out line 3 like it used to be: > #SAMPLE FILE > Unfortunately the problem for me still persists. everything is commented in /etc/mtools/mtools.conf and my version is sys-fs/mtools-3.9.10
Please try to upgrade to the latest versions: sys-fs/mtools-3.9.11 sys-boot/unetbootin-377-r1 I tried and it works. It could be an another bug in mtools ..
I was about to suggest but SpanKY was faster: mtools-3.9.11 has to be stabilized. See bug #293308. This bug might depend on it.
just updated to sys-fs/mtools-3.9.11 but still no luck. the binary version of unetbootin downloaded from their site works without problems. is there a way to compare the results ot the two?
hi, i not really sure is is ONLY the sys-fs/mtools wich cause this problem i still have it!
Change the summary back as unetbootin problem then... Sorry I confused it.
the mtools.conf wasnt buggy -- you just didnt configure it like it said at any rate, unetbootin is not a base-system issue
(In reply to comment #11) > is there a way to compare the results ot the two? > Try manual steps to overwrite your unbootable pendrive http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml Start with fixing mbr and syslinux: dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdX syslinux /dev/sdX1 Check if partition is active (/dev/sdX1 * ) and so on. You might need a second PC to test it after each step so we wound know what's wrong exactly.
For what it's worth, I couldn't generate a bootable flash drive with unetbootin-657 on Linux. I was attempting to update the firmware on my Samsung SSD. Directions are here [1] and they specifically say to use unetbootin. Firmware ISO image is here [2]. The page that links to them is here [3]. Using unetbootin on Windows, I was able to make a bootable flash drive from that ISO... [1] http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/FM/201710/20171030110621897/Samsung_SSD_NVMe_Firmware_Update_Utility_User_Manual.pdf [2] http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/FM/201710/20171030095332613/Samsung_SSD_960_PRO_2B6QCXP7.iso [3] http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/consumer/
(In reply to Matt Turner from comment #17) > For what it's worth, I couldn't generate a bootable flash drive with > unetbootin-657 on Linux. Please file a new bug report.
