On 11/8/20 8:57 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 2020-11-08 13:07, Beartooth wrote:
I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine.
I can't get it to boot from the DVD.
It was originally a System 76, which came with Ubuntu. I had to
get help to switch it to Fedora, but it's been OK till now. (I've been
doing system upgrades with dnf; but that doesn't work any more.
I have been using Fedora on System 76 machines for some time now as
well. Which one is this? Desktop or laptop? On a laptop, the model
number is on a tag on the bottom of the machine. I've not had a desktop,
but something similar should be true.
I'd be shocked if it were a 32-bit machine, so I doubt that's the issue.
The first display on boot says American Megatrends, copyright
2015.
I've been running Fedora since it came out; if I can get this
thing to boot from the live DVD, I ought to be able to install it to the
hard drive. But the boot options are innumerable -- most of them
apparently not connected with the BIOS, if there still is one.
It's the BIOS that controls that first screen, so it must still be
functioning, to some extent. It's of course possible that the BIOS has
gone bad, but that seems unlikely. Even if so, it ought to be possible
to reinstall it. The System 76 folks could probably help with that, but
we needn't go there yet.
If you can take a photo of the boot options (e.g., with a phone), I
might be able to help figure out which one you want. Send it privately
if need be.
I think your worst-case scenario, really, would be to install a new hard
drive.
Riki
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