On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:21 PM, cornel panceac<cpanceac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 2009/7/10 Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> I have an interesting phenomenon for install (failure) off a usbkey for >> F11 >> that I would like to understand. >> >> I used the method at >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#How_to_Make_a_bootable_USB_Drive_to_Install_Fedora_11_instead_of_using_a_physical_DVD >> (which I wrote), to try and install F11 on a Samsung NC10 netbook. The >> livecd-iso-to-disk command was executed on a machine running up to date >> F11 >> to create the bootable key. The NC10 would not boot at all off the key, >> and >> just gave a single cursor and nothing else. The boot flag was indeed set. >> I have also experienced this and the key to solving it is using ext3 (Linux / 83) file system instead of dos filesystem. while creating partition use 83 as the filesystem type and then format the usb disk using mkfs.ext3 . It will work. See this [1] for details. [1] http://sherry151.blogspot.com/2009/03/live-usb-magic.html -- Regards Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury Fedora Ambassador sherry151@xxxxxxxxx -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
