On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 01:17:27 -0800, me wrote:

On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 02:41:00 -0600,
wrote:

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:36:59 -0500, Doomsdrzej wrote:

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https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...tu-17.10-BIOS-
Corrupter

Linux corrupts your BIOS. Brilliant stuff.

This comes as no surprise to me. I wanted to try Linux some years ago.
I wrote some ISO files to flash drives to make them bootable, and
runable. I began with several brand new flash drives.

Not only did many of them not boot on any of my computers, but these ISO
files literally killed the flash drives. Most of them had 5 writes or
less. After killing 5 or 6 flash drives, I quit all linux use after
that. Even the few distros that did boot, did not impresse me.

I guess I can be thankful that my only losses were about $35 worth of
flash drives, and not a motherboard or entire computer.


I've run several versions of Linux from CDs, DVDs, flash drives, AND
more. Never had a problem.

The problem seems to be what the the iso file contains and how you burn.
The later releases contain the boot loader and I've found the best way to
burn this is using dd from the terminal.
Others do not contain the boot loader which can be added later or by
something like Rufus.
The damaged flash drives are not lost forever but getting them back can
be a struggle. Gparted doesn't always do it. I've have best luck using
the free mini partition tool for windows.