On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 2:59 PM Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 10/04/2023 12:37 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > The laptop's BIOS obviously sees the drive because if the drive's > inserted when I turn it on, it ignores any and all F keys and tries to > boot from it. And, my desktop had no trouble writing the .iso to it > with dd, and I can open it up and look at the various files on it with > my desktop. Yes, there may be something wrong with it, but it's not > completely dead. If I understand correctly, on the same laptop: - you can boot off the hard drive and then download the iso file. You can then insert the USB flash drive and copy the iso to the flash drive using dd. - the flash drive passes the checksum test - you can mount the flash drive and examine the files but again on the same laptop: - if you boot off of the USB flash drive, it *boots*, but stops at a "grub>" prompt - with the USB drive inserted the laptop does not allow you to enter BIOS/CMOS/Setup/Whatever by using an appropriate key My best *guesses*..... - the laptop is set to RAID mode instead of non-RAID mode. Go into BIOS and check. - the laptop has a BIOS setting that tries to implement "security" by disabling Setup and the hard drive when booted off a USB drive. Again, go into BIOS and check. Other things you can try: - non-USB media. DVD-R, Compact Flash or SD card if laptop has such, you have spare media, and laptop will boot off it. - you can download the server "net install" iso and use it as a test. It won't provide a "live image" but it should allow you to get to a bash shell for troubleshooting. _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
