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* As was *ENTIRELY PREDICTIBLE*, the lack of timely releases from the GRUB project has resulted in distro maintainers (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.) taking matters in their own hand and applying patches on top of their 2.06 version. However, these patches result in 2.06 bootloaders that are incompatible with 2.06 modules that don't have the same patches applied. Especially this now results in the infamous "452: out of range pointer" error message when using patched modules with unpatched bootloader or unpatched modules with patched bootloaders. * Making this issue worse, we also have distro maintainers who won't add a suffix to their GRUB version, AS ONE SHOULD DO WHEN ONE APPLIES TONS OF PATCHES ON TOP OF A PROJECT'S SOURCE, and MISreport their non 2.06 GRUB as "2.06", and, because we can't detect what patches are needed from modules themselves (unlike what is the case for grub_debug_is_enabled), we have no way of telling incompatible GRUB 2.06 binaries from one another. * As a result, we have no choice but to append a sanitized version of the ISO label to the GRUB version, as a means to differentiate between incompatible versions, and tweak our existing bootloader download mechanism to *ATTEMPT* to download a compatible 'core.img' from our server... where we will have to waste a lot of time adding new binaries and symlinks to try to make all these GRUB "2.06" based images work, and will probably miss quite few with the end results that users who are just trying to install Linux will be left stranded. * Again, I have to point out how the end result of regular users wanting to try Linux and being unable to do so is the *DIRECT* result of the GRUB project maintainers having sat on a 2-year influx of CONTINUOUS patches, and thinking that "Release Early, Release Often" is only a gimmick, and not something that should apply to their project, even as they have been warned before, by yours truly, that *NOT* releasing on a timely basis is causing actual grievances... That's because, had the GRUB maintainers released on a timely basis (at least once a year) Fedora and Ubuntu would be using vanilla GRUB 2.07 with the memory patches, and we wouldn't be trying to mix that with old GRUB 2.06 binaries. * For more on this, see #2233, noting that we will need to apply a compatibility breaking change during the 4.1 release, to revert the patches we applied to the default 2.06 'core.img' in pbatard/rufus-web@320b800592. |
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README.md
Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives.
Features
- Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS/ext2/ext3
- Create DOS bootable USB drives using FreeDOS
- Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including UEFI bootable NTFS
- Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)
- Create bootable drives from bootable disk images, including compressed ones
- Create Windows 11 installation drives for PCs that don't have TPM or Secure Boot
- Create Windows To Go drives
- Create persistent Linux partitions
- Create VHD/DD images of a drive
- Compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums of the selected image
- Improve Windows installation experience by automatically setting up OOBE parameters (local account, privacy options, etc.)
- Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives
- Download official Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 or Windows 11 retail ISOs
- Download UEFI Shell ISOs
- Modern and familiar UI, with 38 languages natively supported
- Small footprint. No installation required.
- Portable. Secure Boot compatible.
- 100% Free Software (GPL v3)
Compilation
Use either Visual Studio 2022 or MinGW and then invoke the .sln or configure/make respectively.
Visual Studio
Rufus is an OSI compliant Open Source project. You are entitled to download and use the freely available Visual Studio Community Edition to build, run or develop for Rufus. As per the Visual Studio Community Edition license, this applies regardless of whether you are an individual or a corporate user.
Additional information
Rufus provides extensive information about what it is doing, either through its easily accessible log, or through the Windows debug facility.
Enhancements/Bugs
Please use the GitHub issue tracker for reporting problems or suggesting new features.