Failure to boot Workstation live install images

2021-02-09 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
I've seen several ISOs lately that after they were written to a thumb drive using media writer they wouldn't boot. I won't be recounting the details I sent in prior motes to @test, but here is a little more information. The last one I tried was Workstation Live 0207.n.0. It failed to boot

Re: Failure to boot Workstation live install images

2021-02-09 Thread Stephen Snow
To just maybe add to this, I have experienced the write/failure/rewrite cycle at time with media writer as well. On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 12:23 -0500, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > > I've seen several ISOs lately that after they were written to a thumb > drive using media writer they wouldn't boot.

Re: Failure to boot Workstation live install images

2021-02-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 10:23 AM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > > > I've seen several ISOs lately that after they were written to a thumb > drive using media writer they wouldn't boot. I won't be recounting the > details I sent in prior motes to @test, but here is a little more > information. > >

Re: Failure to boot Workstation live install images

2021-02-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 11:05 AM Stephen Snow wrote: > > To just maybe add to this, I have experienced the write/failure/rewrite > cycle at time with media writer as well. Curious because it does verify by re-reading the whole stick. -- Chris Murphy _

Re: Failure to boot Workstation live install images

2021-02-09 Thread Stephen Snow
I haven't had the issue recently, but I also rotated out of use one of my older thumb drives because I suspected it was failing. I do remember tha last time I had it happen, after failure I deleted the image I had downloaded and went with the easy selection of workstation and everything was fine.

Re: Failure to boot Workstation live install images

2021-02-09 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 2/9/21 13:19, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 10:23 AM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: I've seen several ISOs lately that after they were written to a thumb drive using media writer they wouldn't boot. I won't be recounting the details I sent in prior motes to @test, but here is

Re: Failure to boot Workstation live install images

2021-02-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 3:29 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > > > > On 2/9/21 13:19, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 10:23 AM pmkel...@frontier.com > > wrote: > >> > >> > >> I've seen several ISOs lately that after they were written to a thumb > >> drive using media writer they wou

Re: Failure to boot Workstation live install images

2021-02-09 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 2/9/21 18:11, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 3:29 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: As I understand f3 it just writes files to the flash and reads them back checking for errors. I'll go ahead and try f3 on the same thumb drive. It can distinguish between different kinds of pr

Re: Failure to boot Workstation live install images

2021-02-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 7:34 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > > > > On 2/9/21 18:11, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 3:29 PM pmkel...@frontier.com > > wrote: > > >> As I understand f3 it just writes files to the flash and reads them back > >> checking for errors. I'll go ahead and

Re: Failure to boot Workstation live install images

2021-02-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/9/21 2:29 PM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: I see that the file size is constant at 1.1GB except for the last one where it just uses up the left over space. There are 14 files of 1.1GB and 1 file of 5xxMB. so the size checked out. I'm wondering if they pick the file size based on the flash