On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:07:29 +0000, I Beartooth wrote:
I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine.
I can't get it to boot from the DVD.
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This is the machine, discussed here in a thread beginning October
30, about a transaction test error. The conclusion was that I had
allocated space badly in F 32, and might as well install F 33 from
scratch. That's what I'm trying to do.
I've been running Fedora since it came out; IF I can get this
thing to boot from the live DVD, I ought to be able to install it to the
hard drive. But the boot options are innumerable -- most of them
apparently not connected with the BIOS, if there still is one.
I found my DVD for F32 Live. I put that into the drawer, leaving
the drawer open. I thought maybe that was magic.
When I told it to reboot, it pulled in the drawer and immediately
booted F 32 Live. I told it to install to hard drive -- and got another
surprise. This machine has TWO drives, sda with 112 GB, and sdb with 1.8
TB -- both supposedly almost full. I told it to create space ("delete
all"), and it did indeed install F32, over the top of F32 that was
already there.
But when I then tried the same open-drawer trick with the F 33,
it did nothing for a long time, then booted F 32. :-{ I broke the DVD
with my bare hands; it shattered very satisfactorily. I'll go download
and burn another. Stay tuned.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.