On 10/1/23 15:46, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/01/2023 04:38 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> I don't know what the context is here, but are you sure you're booting
> from the USB? If there's grub installed on the internal hard drive,
> but missing partitions or something, then you'll get that.
>
The laptop has a new drive, unformatted and I'm trying to get Fedora
installed on it. My desktop has a working system on it, but if I try to
boot from the flashdrive, it fails in the same way that it does on my
laptop.
>> dd if=f38.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
Which iso image is this? Since you've renamed it, there's no indication
of what it is.
> That's good. You can mount the USB drive to verify that the
files are
> there.
I did and it does.
I don't know why it's not working for you, unless there's something
funny with your BIOS. Have you tried both UEFI and legacy modes?
I created a boot drive using dd with the Workstation image and it worked
fine on everything I've tried, including an old mac mini which is now
running Fedora.
>> And the correction was using M instead of m.
>
> Shouldn't matter either way, other than probably being more efficient
> with M.
If so, why did dd fail until I used M instead of m?
Sorry, I forgot the result of the earlier thread. "m" is invalid. The
two options are "M" and "MB".