Hi all,


Ubuntu 12.04 desktop, 64bit


I have following ISO download on Fedora website
Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso

Verified sha256sum correct

1)
Create LiveUSB by running
# dd if=/path/to/.iso of=/dev/sdb

It went throught without complaint. But the USB can't boot

2)
Ran;
Brasero Disc Burner
to burn CD, without complaint

But the LiveCD can't boot;
I burned it twice without solution.

Please help. TIA

B.R.
satimis

First step would be to make sure that your Bios is set to boot from USB or from CD and not your hard drive as it's initial boot device.

Absolutely sure.

In one occasion Fedora 17 started. But after installation completed the new OS couldn't start.

It hangs on;
GRUB Loading stage1.5

GRUB loading, please wait ,,
Error 15

I tried pressing [ESC] to start GRUB menu without effect. From there I could start RESCUE mode

Is this your primary system, I assume?
I don't use Fedora although I occassionally try it and tried Fedora 17 in VBox. Fedora has both Grub Legacy and Grub2 available if you look in the /boot directory and I believe it defaults to Grub2 during installation, not sure? I'm wondering where the stage1_5 error comes from as there is no stage1_5 file in Grub2?

Booted from the CD/USB and the installation completed?? Not available on reboot? Did you install Fedora Grub to its /boot partition or / partition? Run update-grub from Ubuntu?

Did you test the md5 or shal of the iso download? Did you burn it at the slowest speed? Did you use good quality disk?

Did you try this for the usb?
su -c 'dd if=Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso of=/dev/sd''X'' bs=8M'

Also when you boot to the usb you may have to start from power off. Insert usb then go to bios to view how your system can support it. Most that I have used will show the usb as a hard drive choice and will not boot from trying to boot first to a usb device.

1) Yes, sha256sum has been verified correct

2) There is NO speed setting on Brasero Disc Burner

3) I burned the ISO on TDK RW disc. I have been using quality RW burning ISO for years in the past without failure.


I ran;
sudo dd if=/path/to/Fedora17_ISO of=/dev/sdb

I have been running this command writing ISO on USB for long time without much problem.

/dev/sdb was found with;
sudo fdisk -l


I always did the steps similar to your advice. The USB was detected by BIOS as HD


Problem has been partially solved as follow;

I have another HD running Ubuntu 12.04 desktop, 64bit, on this PC and performed following steps;

1) Booted up the PC with Ubuntu HD.
2) Ran;
sudo fdisk -l
to detect the HD for installing Fedora 17. Found /dev/sda
3) Ran,
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M
to wipe out all data on it.
4) After finish shut down the PC
5) Disconnected the Ubuntu HD
6) Plugin the USB stick and Started the PC
7) Set boot USB as HD on BIOS

To my surprise this time the USB stick worked. Then installed Fedora 17 desktop, 64bit, on the HD

Now Fedora 17 is running the PC without problem. But still I can't boot the Live CD, hanging on "dracut warning: can't mount root.

It looks quite strange to me.

Thanks.

B.R.
satimis

Yes.

Fedora uses Grub2


I ran USB to install Fedora17 on the HD without complaint.


Yes on /boot partition, LVM

Thanks

B.R.
satimis