fedora 12 live-usb won't boot
hi, i got the 64 bit version of fedora 12 on a live-usb but it wont boot my hp elitebook 6930p.
fedora 11 live-usb boots up fine on it. i tested the fedora-12 usb on an older acer extensa 4620z and it boots fine. what is up with the hp ? |
Hi -
Why not provide just a tad more information so we might be able to help? One thing you *did* say (or at least you implied - that's better than nothing ;)) is that your HP Elitebook 6930p supports USB boot and is configured to use it (Fedora 11/Live USB boots on this PC; Fedora 12/Live USB does't). Another thing you said (implied ;))was that your Fedora 12/Live USB is bootable - it works on a different PC. But exactly where/how does it fail? What happened *after* you powered on? Any error messages or warnings? Did you try any alternate Linux "boot" options? Try editing the contents of the USB? Any other investigation/troubleshooting? And don't be afraid of that "caps" key :) 'Hope that helps .. PSM |
^ thanks paul, yes you implied correctly.
no error with the hp - it proceeds to boot into windows xp normally. i'm not really sure what boot options would remedy this (especially since it doesnt provide a grub boot menu). i used the dd method to create a bootable live-usb from the x86-64 iso (my pc just seems to ignore it when it starts up) ? |
I Dunno ;)
Here's what I'm hearing: Code:
Fedora 12/USB: Fedora 11/USB: 1. Your HP is configured to boot USB (at least with Fedora 11) 2. Your Fedora 12 is a bootable USB (at least on the Acer) 3. Some combination of the Fedora 12 USB media and the HP BIOS is "preventing ignition" I Dunno ;) Suggestions: 1. Try burnng your Fedora 12 to a CD, and see if that boots. 2. Check potential "geometry" issues and/or try different format options with your USB: http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Bootable_USB_Key http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-bios-boot-options/ 3. Try downloading and formatting your USB with HP's boot utility, HPUSBFW.exe: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...ctID=c01783843 4. Finally, here are a few things other people have run into; their experiences might provide a few clues: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-stick-664033/ http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm http://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/ ... 'Hope that helps .. PSM |
^thx, i'll play around with your suggestions.
i find this interesting: i mounted both usb's to fc-9 live cd (the fedora-11 usb disk label is referred to as disk-1): Code:
[fedora@localhost ~]$ mount i made the fedora-12 usb using this method: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo: Quote:
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^ nope, i reformatted it as fat32 and ran livecd-iso-to-disk on it and it still wont boot ?
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If it's any help, fedora 12 wouldn't work for me using unetbootin, but would using the fedora live USB tool. Maybe give that a go?
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i think the livecd-iso-to-disk script is the non-gui version of the liveusb-creator
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progress: i reformatted it as ext3 but i dont get a grub menu at bootup. i get
Code:
loading grub stage 1.5... thanks, |
i used the gui tool for creating live usb and was at least able to get a grub menu.
i am now getting this error rite after boot: Code:
drhd: handling fault status reg f000674e but it is pretty slow so i will stick with fc-11 for now. |
Fedora USB Boot Error
I had Boot Error problem with Fedora 16 on my Core 2 Duo on Intel motherboard PC.
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Fedora USB Boot Error
I had Boot Error problem with Fedora 16 on my Core 2 Duo on Intel motherboard PC. I tried different options
1. create usbstick with liveusb-creator 2. create usbstick with livecd-iso-to-disk through Code:
livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr Fedora-16-i686-Live-Desktop.iso /dev/sdb1 4. dd if=Fedora-16-i686-Live-Desktop.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=8M I was able to boot from usb when created through dd method. But i got Boot Error when usb is created with other methods. Finally i got clue from a post where it was indicated that setting USB as HDD solved problem. In my BIOS in BOOT menu has a option - USB Mass Storage Emulation Type which was Auto by default. I changed it All Fixed Disc. With this change I am finally able to boot from USB created either through liveusb-creator or livecd-iso-to-disk |
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