On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 09:48:03PM +0200, Robin Lee wrote: > On Sun, 2020-07-05 at 12:21 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 7/5/20 12:01 PM, Robin Lee wrote: > > > I've downloaded a Windows installer ISO-file from microsoft.com > > > that I > > > put on a USB-stick and tried to install Windows on physical > > > machine, > > > but it won't boot from the USB. It shows up in the BIOS boot menu, > > > but > > > it won't boot. > > > > > > I've tried to install the same ISO-file in Boxes and that went > > > fine. > > > I've tried both Brasero and Disk Image Writer, I've tried two > > > different > > > USB-sticks and two different physical target machines. > > > > Boxes will make it a DVD drive, not USB. > > > > Isn't Brasero only for writing to optical media? Anyway, I would > > just > > use dd to write it to the flash drive. > > > > In a terminal (change sdc to whatever your flash drive is): > > sudo dd if=windows.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M status=progress > > Same result. > > Also tested creating a bootable USB-stick with a Centos ISO-file. No > problem.
Until recently, whenever I made a bootable USB drive from an ISO-file, to use it I had to go into the BIOS and allow "legacy" devices precedence over existing secure-boot devices. But recently, with the Fedora 32 stick I made, I had to disallow the legacy devices as the ISO was intended for secure-boot. Perhaps your CentOS stick is secure-boot, thus working for you but the others need the "legacy" change to the BIOS. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jo...@jgcomp.com _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
