On 3/23/23 1:25 PM, home user wrote:
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noticed that my emergency tools are seriously out of date.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.
This afternoon (Sun., May 28), I retried Fedora Media Writer and a USB-3.1 stick, this
time choosing Fedora-37 Workstation. There were no hints of trouble. But when I tried to
boot from that stick, the boot screen sees the stick, but booting from it failed. I
don't know how to capture the messages that were displayed.
So I turned to Stan's suggestion in the "/boot problem" thread to try a live
DVD. It sure took a while to burn it. It sure took a while to boot it. But it does seem
to have worked (one test only).
I'm puzzled and troubled that the USB stick method does not work. Could that have
something to do with this being a BIOS rather than a UEFI workstation? But if that were
the case, I would expect the DVD approach to also fail. Regardless, I'm glad the DVD
method does work (though sure is slow). Since the DVD approach worked, I'm marking
this thread SOLVED.
Thank-you.