docs(GUI): explain why some drives are not bootable out of the box

[jviotti]

The usual case is images requiring special treatment. We recommend the
users to use specialised tooling for those cases.

Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti jviotti@openmailbox.org

[lurch]

Perhaps "software" would be better here than "tooling" ?

[jviotti]

Fixed!

[lurch]

Is it worth also explaining that Etcher doesn't set up "persistent" partitions like Unetbootin can do? (or should that come under a separate PR?)

[alexandrosm]

you may want to include specific problematic cases, as well as the specific
tools? if we start listing them here, we will have them ready when we want
a list of what to include in our warnings feature.

Alexandros Marinos

Founder & CEO, Resin.io

+1 206-637-5498

@alexandrosm

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Juan Cruz Viotti notifications@github.com
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In docs/USER-DOCUMENTATION.md
#783:

@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@ Etcher User Documentation

This document contains how-tos and FAQs oriented to Etcher users.

+Why is my drive not bootable?
+-----------------------------
+
+Etcher copies images to drives byte by byte, without doing any transformation
+to the final device, which means images that require special treatment to be
+made bootable, like Windows images, will not work out of the box. In these
+cases, the general advice is to use tooling specific to those kind of images,

Fixed!

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[jviotti]

@alexandrosm Done!

@lurch Good idea! I'll do it in a separate PR.

[lurch]

It also looks like "Windows 10 IoT Core Dashboard" is needed for writing Windows 10 IoT to a SD card
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/Docs/GetStarted/rpi3/sdcard/stable/GetStartedStep1.htm