On Thu, 2023-10-05 at 09:57 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > My desktop didn't go right to the grub prompt, it gave me a menu first, > but ended up at the prompt. Any explanation that doesn't include that, > or the fact that the laptop booted OK at the shop can't be right. That almost sounds like a drive enumeration issue. Like it wants to boot from drive 0, but there's something else being counted as drive 0, and other partitions on your USB stick are drive 1. I don't recall you showing the output from any commands in the GRUB prompt, such as ls. Which would show drives and content that it finds. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.99.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 14:19:20 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ 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