Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-10 Thread Chris Murphy
Fixing bugs is always worthwhile. If neither Fedora 22 or 23 install media can be booted, but Ubuntu can, then i suspect it's not kernel related. Do you get different results when you use dd to create installer media? That really is the most reliable way to create media. But also dd and livecd-is

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-10 Thread R Mercado
On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 16:14 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > How are you creating the USB stick? How does it fail? The description > "it fails" isn't helpful because it doesn't tell us what does happen. > There's no way to know from this description whether it fails to find > the bootloader (or which

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:10 PM, R Mercado wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for your replies. > > I have just emerged from a Fedora 23 upgrade and my previous reports > were not correct! > > The CDs do boot when one chooses the non-UEFI option. OK, this is not your fault, but be aware of two things: 1.

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-08 Thread R Mercado
Hi all, Thanks for your replies. I have just emerged from a Fedora 23 upgrade and my previous reports were not correct! The CDs do boot when one chooses the non-UEFI option. I have now created two partitions, one intended for rawhide and one for 23 (stable). I can't yet explain why booting off

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-06 Thread Earl Ramirez
On Sat, 2016-02-06 at 07:33 +, R Mercado wrote: > On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 19:11 -0500, Kevin Cummings wrote: > > Just reading this now (sorry). > > > > I'm adding the following: > > > > http://kjchome.homeip.net/Fedora-Live-Desktop-i686-20 > > http://kjchome.homeip.net/Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_6

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-06 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/06/2016 02:33 AM, R Mercado wrote: > Thanks for taking the trouble. No trouble, just had to add 2 symlinks to my main page. > I found the images at https://torrents.fedoraproject.org/ too. I stopped seeding those files shortly after they were obsoleted, but I keep all of my images. > I ca

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-06 Thread stan
On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 07:33:42 + R Mercado wrote: > On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 19:11 -0500, Kevin Cummings wrote: > > Just reading this now (sorry). > > > > I'm adding the following: > > > > http://kjchome.homeip.net/Fedora-Live-Desktop-i686-20 > > http://kjchome.homeip.net/Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-05 Thread R Mercado
On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 19:11 -0500, Kevin Cummings wrote: > Just reading this now (sorry). > > I'm adding the following: > > http://kjchome.homeip.net/Fedora-Live-Desktop-i686-20 > http://kjchome.homeip.net/Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-20 > Thanks for taking the trouble. I found the images at http

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-03 Thread Kevin Cummings
Just reading this now (sorry). I'm adding the following: http://kjchome.homeip.net/Fedora-Live-Desktop-i686-20 http://kjchome.homeip.net/Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-20 should be links to the images. I got my images via BitTorrent so each directory should contain both an ISO file and a CHECKSUM f

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-02 Thread R Mercado
> I have copies of both the Fedora-Live-Desktop for F20 if you need it, > they're each just shy of 1GB. I can make them available at the drop > of > a hat. Hi Kevin, I now intend to use the link at work (tomorrow) to grab FC21 faster. If not too difficult, please do make available the FC20 install

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-02 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 02/02/16 17:51, R Mercado wrote: > I may download FC21 later. It takes a while to get 1.4 Gb on my link. > Too bad I can't find the Fedora 20 image I had. I have copies of both the Fedora-Live-Desktop for F20 if you need it, they're each just shy of 1GB. I can make them available at the drop

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-02 Thread R Mercado
Hi. Thanks for writing. > One of the things to remove would be the "rhgb" options, and possibly > the "quiet" option as well (is that two options?) Then you can see > what > the startup is doing and you can then report back the last few > messages > on the console or some errors that happen durin

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-02 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 02/01/16 18:21, R Mercado wrote: > I have now been able to validate the Live Fedora CD by booting it on an > older machine. The Lenovo C540 does not boot with it though. > Thanks to Chris Murphy's suggestions I also got a bootable USB stick. > > The Lenovo picks up some of the boot code and com

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-01 Thread R Mercado
> NumLock/CapsLock LEDs stop responding to toggle. Ctrl-Alt-Del work > when > frozen. I should have written "Ctrl-Alt-Del does not work when frozen". -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-01 Thread R Mercado
I have now been able to validate the Live Fedora CD by booting it on an older machine. The Lenovo C540 does not boot with it though. Thanks to Chris Murphy's suggestions I also got a bootable USB stick. The Lenovo picks up some of the boot code and comes to a menu where i can choose "Start Live CD

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-01 Thread R Mercado
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 15:56 +, Chris Murphy wrote: > No, for UEFI it also needs --efi > > Is more reliable to use: > > --efi --reset-mbr --format Thanks, I am going to try this. RM -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://adm

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-01 Thread R Mercado
On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 13:06 -0200, Wagner Marques wrote: > > I've been used dd command to create my pendrives... > Maybe it can be worthy... Thanks, I tried it and it's the documented method in the installation guide. I did not get the Lenovo C540 or the older Medion system to boot with the stick

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 4:18 PM R Mercado wrote: > > > My method of making a bootable USB disk was to use the script > livecd-iso-to-disk from the Fedora 23 Live Image this way: > > sudo ./livecd-iso-to-disk --format '/home/rmercado/Downloads/hj/Fedora > -Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-10.iso' /dev/sd

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-02-01 Thread Wagner Marques
I've been used dd command to create my pendrives... Maybe it can be worthy... # dd if=/home/rmercado/Downloads/hj/Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-10.iso' of=/dev/sdb (not /dev/sdb*1*) Wagner França Marques 954731643 970768470 2016-01-31 21:17 GMT-02:00 R Mercado : > On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 22:

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-01-31 Thread R Mercado
On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 22:30 +, R Mercado wrote: > On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 19:11 -0200, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: > > Did you use this media on another machine? Did it boot correctly > > into > > the live session? > > I had not used the media elsewhere and when I attempted it on other > older mach

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-01-31 Thread R Mercado
On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 19:11 -0200, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: > Did you use this media on another machine? Did it boot correctly into > the live session? I had not used the media elsewhere and when I attempted it on other older machine a few minutes ago the boot failed too! I am now creating a USB d

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-01-31 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
I am just asking because installing Fedora on notebooks (at least for me) **never** was an easy task. It mostly has to do with BIOS settings. I can't recall if I ran into the problem you describe, but it may be a local issue and not a bug per se, if you understand me. Be warned that I am not a "L

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-01-31 Thread R Mercado
On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 17:55 -0200, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote: > In what stage does it freeze? Hi Bernardo, thanks for writing. The system freezes after selecting "Start Fedora Live". The display is black with a blinking cursor on the top left of the screen. The CapsLock and NumLock no longer toggle t

Re: Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-01-31 Thread Bernardo Sulzbach
In what stage does it freeze? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing

Cannot Boot Fedora 23 live media on Lenovo C540

2016-01-31 Thread R Mercado
Hi, I would be glad if someone could comment if you managed to run Fedora 23 live image on a Lenovo C540. I find that when booting from the Fedora 23 live image the Lenovo C540 freezes. I submitted a bug report in bugzilla too [1]. Thanks, RM [1] Live media/net install media cannot be booted