On Sat, 10 May 2025, Samuel Sieb wrote:
What kind of computer are you trying to boot on and how old? I've had issues
with older devices and USB. One in particular I had to burn a DVD to
install.
HP Compaq dc5800 .
Bought it used.
One of the stickers mentions Vista.
It will boot from USB.
Once upon a time, I installed F39 on an SD card using a USB adapter.
It will still boot from that card and adapter.
The internal drive and the F39 SD card both have dos partitioning.
F42, on the other hand:
hennebry@fedora:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdf
GPT PMBR size mismatch (4684615 != 31116287) will be corrected by write.
The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.
The backup GPT table is not on the end of the device.
Disk /dev/sdf: 14.84 GiB, 15931539456 bytes, 31116288 sectors
Disk model: Storage Device
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: EDACC107-C81D-406A-BCA7-F5D9B433A478
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdf1 64 4623111 4623048 2.2G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sdf2 4623112 4684551 61440 30M EFI System
I hope I do not have to resort to burning a DVD,
and if I do that it works.
I also have an HP EliteBook 840 G3 laptop
that currently has Windows 10 and F39.
I'd been hoping to install F42 on both machines the same way.
The laptop has no DVD drive.
Alas, I no longer have any idea how I got F39 onto the laptop.
It no longer boots from USB and there is not a lot of other options.
--
Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical
reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young
goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods
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