On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gilboa Davara wrote: > >>> I started by dd-ing the DVD iso onto the single partition /dev/sdb1 >>> on the stick. >>> For some reason this did not boot, >>> so I deleted the partition (with fdisk) >>> and dd-ed the iso onto /dev/sdb . >>> Maybe that was my error? >> >> You dd the image into the USB device. >> The ISO already includes a (weird) partition table. >> dd if=/xx/FedoraXXX.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M >> >> You *may* need to select USB-CD (instead of USB-HDD) in your BIOS boot >> menu to get it to boot. > > Just to be clear. > When I removed /dev/sdb1 (with fdisk) on the USB stick, > and dd-ed to /dev/sdb exactly as you suggest, > the laptop did boot and I was able to install on my laptop > but the resulting system had only half-a-dozen modules installed > (according to lsmod). > I'm pretty sure the failure had something to do with grub2. > I chose the custom layout, incidentally, > as I wanted to keep Fedora-16 on another partition. > I think know what happened. Are you sharing boot between F16 and F17 by any chance [1]? - Gilboa [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820351 _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
