USB stick not bootable using unetbootin on Mac
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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UNetbootin |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Geza Kovacs |
Bug Description
Hi all. Just putting this in the system in case it happens to correlate with anything else you're looking at.
I downloaded the latest version (version doesn't show up when I run unetbootin, but it's the latest on the website) for my Mac, running OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Used it with the following ISOs and installs:
FreeDos, EasyPeasy 1.6 ISO, and Acer Aspire One 3310 firmware update. Every time I created the USB image, it got "Missing operating system" when I attempted to boot from my USB stick on my Aspire One. I spent hours ... carefully formatting the stick FAT32, d/l'ing the latest unetbootin, etc. Really slaved at it ... tearing out my hair.
Finally I tried doing the download of unetbootin and the EasyPeasy ISO on the Aspire One itself, which at the time was running Kuki Linux, an old version from 2009. And what do you know, it worked.
Perhaps this will help the developers track down this intermittent but not-unheard-of bug.
The USB stick is a SanDisk 16G Cruzer.
Really hope you guys can track this down eventually ... I spent several hours hacking at this last night.
Hello,
Same problem with Mac OS X 10.7.2
trying to "send" VMware_Esxi_5_iso on an USB Stick
doesn't work (not bootable) using unetbootin on Mac OS X
usable (bootable) using the same USB Key on a windows 7 VM (with vmware fusion, on the same Mac OS X machine)
Laurent