On Mon, 09 Nov 2020 11:42:01 -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> On 2020-11-08 13:07, I 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. This is a desktop. We're thinking it's maybe five to seven years old. I don't see a model designation. > 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. > It's the BIOS that controls that first screen, so it must still be > functioning, to some extent. What of btrfs, whatever it is? New to me, but being discussed on this list now. > 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'll try; my little old clamshell does have a camera, but I have yet to get any pix off it. Are you anywhere near Blacksburg and Virginia Tech, by any chance? First, though, I'll send this off before I reboot. > I think your worst-case scenario, really, would be to install a new hard > drive. Hmmm .... Tempting. I have no hardware skills, and precious little knowledge; but there is a good shop here that I like. I also have a couple of external USB drives. Would they help?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. _______________________________________________ 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
