On Tue, 2025-09-23 at 12:25 -0500, Dale wrote: > 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 > > :-) :-)
I would stay vary of ventoy https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/135 https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795
