On 10 Sep 2021 at 0:25, Jon LaBadie wrote: Date sent: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:25:57 -0400 From: Jon LaBadie <jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB Flash with Fedora 33?? Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > This may be a totally useless experience from another Dell > computer, but ... > > I was running an older Fedora on both a non-Dell desktop > and a Dell Vostro laptop. I decided to do a fresh reinstall > on the laptop. First, used the desktop to create an install > flash drive (F34). Forget if I used mediawriter or dd, but > should not matter. > > The flash mounted fine on the desktop. Took it to the > laptop, again mounted fine under the old Fedora. Tried > to boot from the flash and could not see it at all no > matter what bios boot options I tried. > > Returned to the desktop and there was no problem booting > from the flash drive. But no success on the laptop until... > > I recalled a brief message "Press F12 to ..." So brief I > had to <ctrl><alt><del> several times to get the rest that > said something like "select boot device". > > When I next rebooted and pressed F12, it gave a menu that > included USB legacy boot, USB secure boot, and my hard drive. > > Maybe the new Dell bios at your client needs something like > that to USB boot. > On my Dell machine, the F12 key does the boot option menu, and it will show the Legacy options and the UEFI options if a UEFI flash is installed. The user has gotten into the bios to boot the G4L from Dell 3070 machines, but the new Dell 3080 machine don't have the options available. It is possible that there is some complex process to enable the options that is different from the 3070 to the 3080. Don't have any access to either. Tried to go to Dell website to ask a Dell Tech, but it requires a special code off a machine to be able to get to first step. Asked the user to ask Dell, but haven't heard back yet. Had a Dell PowerEdge server like 20 years ago. Went to install Windows NT 2000 on it. System had 3 SCSI hard drives in a very fancy 6 bay setup. Booting up from the windows NT 2000 CD, and it came up with message that no hard drives found, but I could see the 3 drives sitting there with all the green lights on and spinning just fine. Had to do some research, and found the NT CD didn't include the Perc 3 SCSI controller the Dell was using for the fancy server. Had to find it on the internet, and put the driver on a 3 1/2" floopy disk. Then boot from the NT CD, and press F8 (or other key), to be able to add the Perc 3 driver and then it saw the drive and install. Later I but some other disk in machine, and the Fedora CD at time had no problem seeing the Drives. Wasn't impressed with the $8,000 Dell server. Had $2,000 generic machines that were faster, but didn't have the 3 power supplies or other fancy bells. In high school in mid 70s, my school had a 1963 IBM 1130 with 4K of Ram, and punch card. No display, but a teletype console. Removalable 5M hard disk. So come a long way. Thanks for the reply. Have a great day. > -- > Jon H. LaBadie jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
