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.
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.
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.
There was a "media writer" app that helped you put an installer onto a
USB memory stick, giving you different bootblock options. What I read
about the current mediawriter app doesn't have any options like that.
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