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Comment by gabereiser

This actually bit me earlier this week when I had to write a Windows 11 iso to a usb stick. Using dd on macos, everything seemed like it wrote ok. Checksums matched. All of that. Yet when I booted the target machine with the usb stick, windows installer kept asking for drivers. Back and forth with the motherboard manufacturer and debugging and I narrowed it down to this bug in dd which skipped a few bits (or wrote them incorrectly).

Needless to say, I used a friends windows machine to make an install stick using Microsoft’s media creation tool and that worked out of the box. Strange. The only other explanation I have is that their direct download iso was corrupt or that this dd bug prevented it from writing correctly.

UDF file format. Bootable image. UEFI. SecureBoot enabled. Standard Intel chipset.

parent gabereiser 4 years ago

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