Tim: >> it's entirely possible that some motherboards can't boot from some >> USB connectors at all, and some could be user-configured that way home user: > In my case, I think the problem is trying to boot from the USB-3 > ports, not writing to the USB-3 port. Just out of curiosity, have you been through your BIOS/UEFI to see if there were boot options for those ports? (I'd solve your other issues first, leave this for afterwards.) >> Or that one particular creation techique won't work for them. I've >> had sticks where I simply used dd to copy to the ISO to them, and >> that worked fine. Others I had to use a tool like mediawriter. > I used mediawriter. I don't see how simply using dd could work. It would depend on the image that you were copying to a drive. If the image has a suitable bootblock for USB flash drives, and your motherboard, then it can make bootable ones. > I see that, using mediawriter puts only one file into my Downloads > directory, but 5 top-level directories end up on my stick (was > new/empty beforehand). That suggests that mediawriter did more than > merely download and then copy. While that's true, it's the same kind of thing with using dd. Either way, you copy an *image* of a file system to a device. When that devices is booted/mounted normally, it's a pre-made file system. The specialist tools sometimes give you more options. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 4 23:02:59 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
