Re: USB-live

["George N. White III" <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 08:20, Patrick Dupre <pdupre@xxxxxxx> wrote:

The PC is only 1 year ans 4 months old.

 

It is an Optiplex 7060

It is runing with a biao 1.2.22

It seems that there is a version

1.4.2 avaialble (marked as urgent

I should also have asked if the machine dual boots windows.   If so, you need

to check step 3 of Dell's dual boot installation instructions (for Ubuntu, but I can 

confirm that the same steps work for Fedora):

3.  Ensure you are logged in as an Administrator and check if Fast Startup is disabled. (This can affect whether GRUB can pick up your Windows installation at a later stage.)

Open Control Panel (The windows key + X is a shortcut on all recent versions.)
Open Power Options
Select Choose what the power button does
Select Change settings that are currently unavailable
Ensure that the box marked Turn on Fast Startup (Recommended) is disabled

Upgrading Windows sometimes resets this to "enabled" (after grub has found the 

Windows installation) which causes problems booting Fedora.

 

On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 05:40, Patrick Dupre <pdupre@xxxxxxx> wrote:

OK

On a Dell, it is F12 I guess.
>From here I have to choose:
legacy external device boot
USB Storage Device

It means, not the UEFI Boot

 

The bios may be set to legacy bios mode, or (like my elderly

Dell desktop) the system is too old for UEFI.

 

 > On 6/26/20 1:14 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:

> > After I entered into the BIOS, I have the option to select the boot ordering.
> > By default, I have USB Key First, then, Fedora (in the boot sequence)
> > The options are for the USB Key:
> > File System list
> > PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x0)/USB(0x0,0x0)/CDROM(0x1)
> > File Name
> > \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
>
> That's not what I'm referring to.  When the computer starts, there is
> usually a key you can press to bring up a menu of places to boot from.
> For example, on an HP it's F9.  Sometimes it's ESC or other keys.  There
> might be an option in the BIOS settings to enable the boot menu.

 

Also, a setting to enable legacy BIOS.   Do your BIOS current 

settings look like:

 

Boot Sequence: Legacy (USB & PCIe)

Advanced Boot Options: Legacy Option ROMs Enabled

Secure Boot Disabled.

 

No, it is

Boot Sequence

Advanced Boot Option

UEFI Boot Path Security

These are the headings.   Surprising there aren't values for the settings after the ":", but I assume 

the system is using UEFI.

-- 

George N. White III

_______________________________________________
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