What prevents Multisystem under Ubuntu from "rolling out" an ISO image?

Question

linux

Hello.
I'm trying to create a multiboot disk using Multisustem from Ubuntu 14.04.2.
Multisystem launches a graphical interface, allows you to select the device on which I want to upload the image and asks if I want to install Grub2 on the device. After selecting the ISO image itself, the GUI window turns into a terminal with an invitation and nothing else happens.
Console output:

multisystem 
Gtkdialog version: 0.8.3
LANG:ru_RU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE:en_US.UTF-8
LANGSEL:English|en|en_US.UTF-8|Ryan J Nicholson|[email protected]







device:
EXIT="abort"
device:/dev/sdd1
MESSAGES="Please select the USB volume
to use from the list below.
WARNING:
Grub2 will be installed in the MBR!
"
btmaj2=""
btuninstall2=""
checkupdate2="true"
device="/dev/sdd1"
lister_lang="English"
statusbar="Device:/dev/sdd1
"
theme_pixmap=""
EXIT="detection"
--2015-03-10 14:37:59--  http://liveusb.info/multisystem/version-multisystem.txt
Resolving liveusb.info (liveusb.info)... 92.243.9.215
Connecting to liveusb.info (liveusb.info)|92.243.9.215|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 32 [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘/tmp/multisystem/version-multisystem.txt’

100%[==============================================================>] 32          --.-K/s   in 0s      

2015-03-10 14:37:59 (2,95 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/multisystem/version-multisystem.txt’ saved [32/32]

ok
idgui:
grub-install: info: executing modprobe efivars 2>/dev/null.
grub-install: info: Looking for /sys/firmware/efi ...
grub-install: info: ... not found. Looking for /proc/device-tree ...
grub-install: info: ... not found.
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: error: install device isn't specified.
All
var:autorun.inf
var:boot
var:EFI
var:icon.ico
var:ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso
var:ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-i386.iso
EXIT="abort"
DAG:/media/nazarovd/MULTISYSTEM/ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso
TIMER refresh true
TIMER refresh true
TIMER refresh true
TIMER refresh true
TIMER refresh true
EXIT="abort"

The string "TIMER refresh true" begins to print endlessly in the console when a shell prompt appears in the program window.
The log shows that it seems like it was not possible to install Grub ("grub-install: error: install device isn't specified.").
According to the text of the error, the output of Google is poor. However, I managed to find a recommendation to install Grub manually. Installation with different options, including the one recommended on the Multisystem forum, does not produce errors. When the program is restarted, the behavior is repeated.
FS on the target FAT32 device. The "target device" itself is a partition on the USB HDD. I tried to use a flash drive with a single partition - the problem repeats.

Answer 1

The decision turned out to be...strange.
I remembered that I used multisystem very actively before and there were no problems. And he stopped using it at about the same time as he began to study the possibilities of "
pumping" .bashrc Browsing came down to adding various convenient aliases, a multi-line command line prompt and a hack function that translates the carriage to a new line if the output of the program does not made. It looks like this:
function prompt_command {
# get cursor position and add new line if we're not in column first
echo -en "\033[6n" && read -sdR CURPOS
&& echo " ↵"
}
PROMPT_COMMAND=prompt_command
After commenting "PROMPT_COMMAND=prompt_command" multisystem stopped acting strange.

Answer 2

Most likely you need administrator rights to install the bootloader
sudo multisystem