On 22.01.2015 15:23, Rodney Dawes wrote: > I've been trying to create one recently, under 14.04 running the > lts-utopic kernel. It seems the old problem of flushing is back. When I > run "dd if=ubuntu-14.04.1-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdg bs=4096" it exits almost > immediately, and then the LED on the USB spends the next several minutes
That is the expected behaviour with that incantation. If you added a "oflag=sync" dd should return only after write has finished. In your case you use cached writes. -Stefan > flashing constantly as if data is being written. When it is done > however, it seems I can't actually boot from it. > > I want to re-install my laptop, using UEFI only (ideally with secure > boot, but I don't know if it is possible), and full disk encryption, but > I just can't seem to get a working bootable USB stick made. :-/ > > > On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 12:03 +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> >> in the past few weeks I saw the discussion about what was the best way >> to create Ubuntu USB sticks a couple of times. It looks like USB Creator >> and Testdrive didn't get as much love as they used to do in the past >> (please correct me if I'm wrong). I also noticed that >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity8DesktopIso under "Creating the image" >> mentions using "Disks" and heard that it's more reliable. >> >> Would it make sense to start updating our documentation? Is this what we >> all can agree on? >> >> The following pages (at the very least) would need an update: >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Jams/Testing >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UsingDevelopmentReleases >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Testdrive >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/DevelopmentSetup >> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu >> >> Have a great day, >> Daniel >> >> -- >> Get involved in Ubuntu development! http://packaging.ubuntu.com >> Follow @ubuntudev on twitter.com/facebook.com/G+ >> > > >
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