On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 5:21 AM Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-10-03 at 23:28 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > > I've downloaded and verified an .iso for F38 with Xfce, used dd to write > > it to a new flash drive and tried to boot it on my laptop with a brand > > new blank hard drive. All I get is a grub prompt. > > Has that laptop ever booted successfully from a USB-anything? > > Are there any BIOS/UEFI booting options you can play with? > > I've a PC that I can't boot from anything plugged into the USB port. > It has boot options for a USB floppy or Zip drive, neither of which > I have, which are sufficiently "special" that you can't just plug in a > USB flashdrive and boot from a CD/DVD-ROM boot-image on it. > > Check the vendor's site and web for reports of problems booting USB devices on your model. There may be a BIOS update. I think some boot issues on older systems are due to code that doesn't support current USB capacities and filesystems. https://www.pendrivelinux.com/make-an-exfat-bootable-usb-flash-drive/ assumes you have access to Windows and has: "*Caveats*: Legacy BIOS booting does not work on a very small select few finicky CSM booted systems." > For it, I always burnt a CD or DVD. Now, it's just too old and > horrible to actually want to use that PC. > > On some other painful PC, I plugged a USB DVD-ROM drive into it and > installed from a burnt disc. > > In the past, my other way to get an install onto a difficult system was > to remove the hard drive, fit it in another PC, install Linux to it, > put the hard drive back into the painful PC. I don't know how > customised the install is, these days, for that to work. > The rescue kernel has the drivers that were on the install image, so should boot even if the installed kernel is missing some drivers. > Other people have done things like download an install ISO to a spare > partition on a drive, fiddled with the GRUB entries, and booted the > installer from that hard drive and installing to other partitions on > the same drive. > -- George N. White III
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