On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 11:53 PM Brynne Tanton <brynn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > This is an information post to hopefully assist other people who come > across the issue of being unable to create a fully bootable live USB in > Windows 10 using Win32 Disk Imager as mentioned in the OI documentation at > > https://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/#creating-a-hipster-usb-drive > > This issue was also brought up in the following message on 24 June 2019: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org/msg22377.html > > > From information I have found elsewhere, creating a live USB in Windows is > also an issue with SmartOS. The SmartOS bug has been logged as OS-7959 and > then changed to TRITON-2107. > https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-7959 > There is also discussion about this issue on the SmartOS topicbox forum > > https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss/T50d9af21b2f21891-Mc3cbdb9ad34daecc2b3f8e06 > > In the bug report according to Rob Johnston the issue is due to the USB > image being hybrid MBR+GPT to allow booting in legacy BIOS and UEFI modes > and all Windows tools he tested wanting to lay out the partition table > rather than use the raw image layout. > > The only solutions up until now appear to have been to either use a > linux/unix OS and the dd command as detailed at > > https://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/#creating-a-hipster-usb-drive I've found it to be good practice to create bootable media on an OS with the same paradigm (unix(-like) on unix(-like), NT on NT). Of course, this doesn't help people who only have 1 of the preceding and are trying to install the other. > > Supposedly using Cygwin or WSL in Windows has been successful as well. > I used a VirtualBox Ubuntu client, Windows 10 host to successfully create a > bootable USB. > > As of 20 July 2020 one of the SmartOS members wrote a Windows program to > deal with the partition table writing issue. See the SmartOS topicbox link > above for more details. > https://github.com/AustinWise/SimpleDiskImager Nice, I starred and watched the project. > > > Hopefully this helps others as being unable to create a bootable USB in > Windows seems to be a common problem judging from my search results. > > Regards > Brynne > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
