Tool: Rufus 2.7 Portable
From: https://rufus.akeo.ie
Result: Not ok, the menu doesn't show up, only two icons at the bottom are displayed, see the image below.
After a few seconds, the OS boots normally.
Sorry for the low qualitypictures, i have a crappy phone.
I tested it on a Acer 6935G laptop with a dedicated nvidia GPU and a desktop with a integrated intel GPU
The results are the same on both systems.
I just wanted to know if the problem is on your side or on Rufus side
BTW,can someone test this to see if I didn't screw up somewhere?
Maybe in the future we can create a page with recommended and tested Windows tools to write correctly the ISO on a flash drive.
Bot the i386 and amd64 16.04 Beta 1 images I downloaded via BitTorrent worked fine in VirtualBox, so you could try them in a virtual machine to check if the images themselves are corrupt.
Also, a MD5 checksum tool will verify the image's integrity in case you do have a corrupt copy.
For the first image, I'm not too sure if that's supposed to look like that - the boot menu is usually graphical, not text-based.
For the second image, that's correct - pressing any key should open the boot menu to choose an option.
I think that the Bittorent protocol uses the SHA1 to check for integrity of the downloaded pieces and the "Force recheck option I think it is a manual way to check again.
I never had a corrupt file downloaded throug bittorent.
Anyway, I checked the MD5 hashes with an external program and they MATCH.
I tested the image in Virtualbox and it's fine, but the boot menu it's the same
Pressing any key indeed shows a menu to choose the language and after that, the normal menu with all the options.
I don't know what to say, I find it very unintuitive.
How a user is supposed to know that there's a hidden menu that he should press a key to see it?
I don't even understand what those 2 icons at the bottom supposed to mean.
The first looks like a keyboard, I think and the second looks like a human with it's arms spread
I'm sorry but I don't get icons without any text beside them, they are just the graphical artist view, which looks like abstract art to me.
Another thing is that I intentionally don't press any key when to OS start because everything goes so fast and I don't have the chance to read anything and I don't know how the bootloader or the os will interpret my key press.
I don't want to mistakenly choose another option from the menu.
My opinion is that the menu should always be displayed with a countdown to automatically choose the try without installing option.
I'm not sure which graphical menu are you talking about.
Are you talking about the one that is shown when the os boots and it offers you to try it or install it?
Yep, the one on the DVD/USB. The graphical one is what should appear normally, looking like this:
But this one below is purely text (your screenshot). I think appears if the graphical mode is unavailable or boot files were not written properly.
It's supposed to indicate that pressing will show the live session boot menu, allowing the user to set accessibility and language options. It wouldn't say it's fair if it was text saying "Press any key for a menu", as loads of languages may use the software, so I guess that's why it's an icon.
I believe if you wait a few seconds at this screen, the live session automatically starts by itself in English and prompts to "Try" or "Install".
I did suggest a mock-up of an icon like this, but I've been told it's not that easy to change it, and it is really there for accessibility.
