SD card not bootable

balenaEtcher
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I am using etcher 1.4.8 on Ubuntu 16.04 and attempting to create a hass.io image (hassos_rpi2-1.13.img) file to an SDcard. Trying with 2 separate cards and neither are bootable. Filesystem was created ok.

Disk /dev/sdb: 14.9 GiB, 15931539456 bytes, 31116288 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 6E1C49A2-418A-425D-8127-40C3814125FB

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 67583 65536 32M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sdb2 67584 116735 49152 24M Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb3 116736 641023 524288 256M Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb4 641024 690175 49152 24M Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb5 690176 1214463 524288 256M Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb6 1214464 1230847 16384 8M Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb7 1230848 1427455 196608 96M Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb8 1427456 3524607 2097152 1G Linux filesystem

Any suggestions?

M-

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Etcher only writes what’s in the image itself byte-to-byte, so the only images that are expected to (possibly) boot when flashed with Etcher are Hybrid ISOs as far as I know. You can read more on it here and possibly here

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I ended up using dd and it wrote the image fine and it is bootable as expected.