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? >> 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 I know what happened. > Are you sharing boot between F16 and F17 by any chance [1]? I am. I chose custom layout, and gave /dev/sda2 as /boot, without formatting it. Basically, I hoped that this would allow me to run Fedora-16 (which I kept on a different partition) as an alternative to Fedora-17. In fact, when I installed Fedora-17 with netinstall everything worked fine, and I can boot into F-16 or F-17 or Windows, as hoped. What exactly was my error with the USB stick method? As I mentioned I had the same problem with the DVD iso and with the KDE Live CD (both transferred to the USB stick). -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
