Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Greetings, > > just starting a routine upgrade I found the following in the "emerge" > output: > > !!! The following installed packages are masked: > - sys-boot/unetbootin-702::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) > /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/package.mask: > # Andreas Sturmlechner <[email protected]> (2025-09-16) > # Abandoned upstream, based on Qt5, "must be run as root", then fails to > # start w/ current kde-plasma/kdesu-gui[X] within Wayland sessions too. > # Removal on 2025-10-16. Bug #957179 > > In the past I used this package to update the bootable image on my reco- > very USB stick, but now this no longer seems to be a good idea :-( > > What are others using to create a bootable USB stick? > > Sincerely, > Rainer > > . >
Someone mentioned this a long time ago on this list. I tried it. It is awesome. I think it supports a lot of booting methods. I'm not sure if it will do what you want but if you read about it, it may be that it does and is a good option for you to try. Here is a link. https://github.com/ventoy Basically, once you get it set up, you just put whatever you want to boot in a directory and when you boot from it, it generates a menu with all the available options. You can add or remove easily. It may not do what you want but if it does, it could be worth taking a few minutes to look into it. Dale :-) :-)
