etcher: Unable to detect SD card as a removeable drive

I’m sorry to hear you’ve been having problems with Etcher. I can assure you that we do test Etcher, and we have many many users who are perfectly happy with it.

If you’d like to change your tone to that of a more positive one, and give a more detailed description, we may be able to help you diagnose your problems…

Ah, that explains a lot. Don’t know why I used that image file.

Just tried it with 2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch.zip and the RPi booted fine 😃

TBH Etcher is much more stable and handles errors pretty well. Didn’t steal all my CPU either 😃

Thanks for asking me to try it out.

Paul

On 27 February 2018 at 00:09, Andrew Scheller notifications@github.com wrote:

Which suggests the image isn’t correct.

Correct. 2017-06-22-rpd-x86-jessie.iso is designed for booting on a PC, see https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-desktop/ for more info. For booting on a Raspberry Pi, you’ll need to download Raspbian from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

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The next day is always a better day 😃

I’ll go over it all again. I did eventually get a card written, but really can’t remember how/if the UX might have been affected by wider system issues.

I did take a clone of the repo, so might investigate, if it continues being problematic.

Cheers.

On 31 October 2017 at 15:24, Andrew Scheller notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for the apology, I hope you’re having a better day today 😃

Could your problems with Etcher be linked to problems elsewhere? If your other problems have now been resolved, would you mind seeing if Etcher now works properly, or if it’s still misbehaving?

And with regards to Unsafe mode - sometimes the OS mis-identifies removable drives as “non-removable” (see e.g. #649 https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/issues/649 and #1788 https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/issues/1788 ), and in Etcher we label these as “System” drives, to prevent people accidentally overwriting drives that they didn’t mean to.

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Apologies - I was having a VERY bad day where NOTHING appeared to be working properly - Mac, network etc. I just lost my cool.

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I’m sorry to hear you’ve been having problems with Etcher. I can assure you that we do test Etcher, and we have many many users who are perfectly happy with it.

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Guess so 😃

On 27 February 2018 at 22:30, Jonas Hermsmeier notifications@github.com wrote:

I guess we can close this issue then? 😃

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I’m trying again with an up-to-date image

On 27 February 2018 at 00:09, Andrew Scheller notifications@github.com wrote:

Which suggests the image isn’t correct.

Correct. 2017-06-22-rpd-x86-jessie.iso is designed for booting on a PC, see https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-desktop/ for more info. For booting on a Raspberry Pi, you’ll need to download Raspbian from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

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Thanks for the apology, I hope you’re having a better day today 😃

Could your problems with Etcher be linked to problems elsewhere? If your other problems have now been resolved, would you mind seeing if Etcher now works properly, or if it’s still misbehaving?

And with regards to Unsafe mode - sometimes the OS mis-identifies removable drives as “non-removable” (see e.g. #649 and #1788 ), and in Etcher we label these as “System” drives, to prevent people accidentally overwriting drives that they didn’t mean to.

Etcher takes FOREVER to load. Then when I select “select image” it takes an age to open the select dialog and even when I have selected the ISO image, the select drive option takes another century to open. Then, the SD card is apparently not a removeable drive - so I’m simply blocked at this point from doing anything further.

BTW I ventured into dangerous territory and enabled ‘Unsafe mode’ - is that what made it recognise my SD card?

Has anyone tested this shit lately? WTF.