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----- Original Message -----
From: "George N. White III" <gnwiii(a)gmail.com>
To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 08:24:07 -0300
Subject: Re: Getting grub working on a LiveUSB
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 5:21 AM Tim via users
<users(a)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.
>
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George N. White III
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