Open COLABORATI opened 6 years ago
same problem with the 'official' netinstall iso from here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/9.4.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-9.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso
Also after this happens, it is not possible to add any other distro to the usb stick - the process then hangs forever at Updating multibootusb config file...
- only way I found was to reformat the usb stick and start over again adding distros... well, besides digging deeper and trying to understand what exactly went wrong.
Please, please improve the error handling on these kind of things. Add a timer that cleans up after no progress when it happens and also make the syslinux write clean defaults when left in an unclean state. Thank you very much for your efforts, I know this is a lot of work!
It would be very nice if you would like to support one of the most used Linux distros - adding the debian netinstall iso was the first thing I tried.
Mbusb is likely choking on the text file (constitution.txt) because it can't be converted into unicode. The fix was too late to arrive for the release. (Sorry, that bug was mine.) Please try the version at https://github.com/mbusb/multibootusb/ . (Either branch, master or devel, will do but it would be easier for me to assist if you use devel) Or you may remaster the iso to remove the offending text file. Note that installer will fail to mount /cdrom and refuses to continue installation unless you mount manually. See https://github.com/mbusb/multibootusb/issues/262
only way I found was to reformat the usb stick and start
When you encounter a similar situation again, try deleting /multibootusb/{the-distro-you-tried-to-install}. You should be able to retry installation without restarting from scratch.
This iso:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/9.4.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-dvd/firmware-9.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso
will hang forever after copying files to usb. usb is formatted with ext4, host system Ubuntu 18.04, latest release of your software just downloaded today. relevant part of log: