While preparing to upgrade to Fedora-37 (planned for mid-April), I noticed that my
emergency tools are seriously out of date. Those are memtest, Fedora live, and rescue.
memtest was dealt with in a thread earlier this month. Now I'm trying to update my
Fedora live USB stick to Fedora-36. I used Fedora Media Writer to do that. I saw no hint
of trouble while using that. But when I try to boot up from the stick (USB-3, if that
matters), I get varying bad results. Two tries failed to complete the boot. One try
appeared to succeed, but I couldn't launch any applications. The applications I tried
were Firefox, a terminal, and I don't recall the other. The last application launch
attempt locked up the workstation.
This workstation is 10 years old. It uses bios. I've attached a PNG screen capture
of what Files says is on the stick at the top level. I do not have a cell phone or camera
to capture the boot screen when the boot fails.
Main question:
How do I make a Fedora-36 USB live stick that really works?
Secondary question:
I can't find a tool on my workstation to check the stick. Disks, GSmartControl, and
Disk Usage Analyzer don't do that, How can I check the stick itself? I actually
tried 2 sticks for the Fedora Media Writer. They both failed when trying to boot.