On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 2:48 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Not all systems are capable of booting USB devices. It depends on the > age of your BIOS and the hardware. Get into your BIOS' boot selection > section and verify you can, indeed, select USB devices there. It can boot USB devices - that was never the issue. But apparently it can't boot USB devices with GPT partition tables. So the current status is..... o Installing directly to external USB drive with GPT partition table results in a disk that will not boot on either of the systems I am using to test. o Installing to the internal drive on the newer laptop, and then using dd to copy that to the external drive works. ----- and this apparently works because the internal drive is 120GB, and anaconda formats it with a DOS partition table o Because the drive is 3TB, I can't use a DOS partition table (well, I can, but then it will only use 2TB of the disk) o Installing directly to a 2nd external USB drive that is only 500GB, and has a DOS partition table works, and the disk is bootable on both systems So I guess if I want a portable Fedora USB drive I will have to limit myself to 2TB, as older systems can't handle GPT partition tables. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/2ZNI33Q2ACH4W7QLHJFG2YCOOKI54JE3/
