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Hello,
I know this is getting off-topic, but since I am surprised how many
people here (have to) base their knowledge of booting Windows install
media from rumors and "advertising", I decided to bring in my knowledge
and personal experience
Hi,
Florian Pelz wrote:
> I guess this is off-topic and we cannot learn anything about the
> permissibility of mformat -k from Windows?
Yes.
The on-topic conclusion so far is that i cowardly propose to zeroize
the MBR partition table in the mformat result before populating it
by mcopy.
(Code sni
Hi,
> On the other hand, in the Windows world this rarely causes any confusion
> since no Windows version I've encountered so far contains native tools
> to write an ISO (or any other image file) to a USB stick as Unix' "dd"
> command would.
A Wallace Line for ISO-zooa. This explains a lot.
> t
I guess this is off-topic and we cannot learn anything about the
permissibility of mformat -k from Windows?
Michael Schierl already explained everything, but still:
I reinstate the Windows 10 USB installation medium’s content.
On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 07:31:23PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > I
On 13:30 10.05.19, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> I am OK with the idea but the patch requires polishing and maybe splitting
> into two or more. And certainly it is not a release material.
Thanks for the feedback. Do you have some specific points that you would
like to see addressed? I certainly want the m
Hi,
Florian Pelz wrote:
> Shall I continue testing?
I'm into ISO images. But it might be interesting to see what Microsoft
deems to be bootable and is willing to promote by its weight.
> I do not know how to verify on Windows if the boot used UEFI.
You could zeroize the x86 machine code in the
On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 02:05:25PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > I will continue testing the Windows 10 USB install medium:
> > /dev/sdb1 * 2048 15728639 15726592 7.5G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>
> That's not an EFI System Partition.
> So i assume the USB stick boots by BIOS and x86 machine code
On 2019-05-11, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> If you find some time, I think it would be interesting if we had a
>>> grub-boot test image where BootX is using:
>>>
>>>
>>> boot &device;:,\System\Library\CoreServices\grub.elf
>>>
>>>
>>> I suspect Apple users would then be able to "properly
Hi,
> The Windows 8.1 ISO image that I downloaded from Microsoft yesterday
> also cannot be booted from a USB drive on neither this Macbook or
> another computer.
I wonder how other people can get to the impression that their attempts
succeeded. (Will have to wait for somebody who is willing to g
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 06:27:17PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Florian Pelz wrote:
> > This is not an install ISO but a USB install medium. The USB drive
> > was written by the Windows Media Creation Tool. Copying instead a
> > Windows ISO created by the Windows Media Creation Tool to
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