Something wrong with SBEMU-FD13-USB.img.xz?

[danielktdoranie]

So I get garbled text characters on screen when using SBEMU-FD13-USB.img.xz. Regardless of what USB port I use or what USB stick I use. Tried downloading it using a different computer. Tried booting the USB stick from a differt computer. Same result no matter what,

[WaRzillA]

Exactly the same problem here.

[volkertb]

Thanks for reporting. I'm going to try reproducing this now.

Just to be clear, did you both download this file from this link (Release_1.0.0-beta.5)?

Also, what tool(s) or command(s) did you do to uncompress and flash the file to your USB sticks?

[volkertb]

Could this be a duplicate of #144?

[volkertb]

Just to rule it out, could you try flashing the image file with another version of Balena Etcher, or using an alternative tool such as Rufus, when you're preparing the USB drive on a Windows system? I know that there are some recent versions of Etcher that were a bit buggy, both the Linux and Windows builds.

Note that when you try flashing it with a different tool, you may first have to manually unpack the .img file from the .xz file using 7-Zip in the case of Windows, or unxz in the case of Linux or macOS.

And in Linux or macOS (and in Windows in a WSL2 terminal), you can try flashing the image with dd like this:

xzcat SBEMU-FD13-USB.img.xz | dd of=/dev/[INSERT CORRECT USB DEVICE HERE] status=progress

Or if that doesn't work, alternatively like this:

xz -dc SBEMU-FD13-USB.img.xz | dd of=/dev/[INSERT CORRECT USB DEVICE HERE] status=progress

Please try some of these out, and be careful about writing to the correct device when you try dd.

And then please let us know if that made any difference. If it didn't then at least we can rule out Balena Etcher, and focus on the actual image file.

I believe I flashed the most recent USB image recently, and it booted fine.

But I can try again some time soon, to double-check.

Thanks for your help in troubleshooting this!