Re: portable (non-live) Fedora on an external USB drive

2018-06-28 Thread ja
On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 21:25 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/25/2018 07:11 AM, ja wrote: > > Currently it is not known how the fedora installer determines which boot > > mechanism to use. > > What do you mean? If you boot using UEFI, it will install in the EFI > partition. If you boot using l

Re: portable (non-live) Fedora on an external USB drive

2018-06-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 06/27/2018 11:12 AM, Go Canes wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 12:30 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: You need to change the boot setting in the disk selection screen so that the boot loader is installed to the second disk instead of the first one. Did that. Also tried booting into rescue mode from

Re: portable (non-live) Fedora on an external USB drive

2018-06-27 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 12:30 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > You need to change the boot setting in the disk selection screen so that the > boot loader is installed to the second disk instead of the first one. Did that. Also tried booting into rescue mode from the installer, and then explicity re-ins

Re: portable (non-live) Fedora on an external USB drive

2018-06-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 06/26/2018 12:43 PM, Go Canes wrote: o Installing directly to external USB drive with GPT partition table results in a disk that will not boot on either of the systems I am using to test. You need to change the boot setting in the disk selection screen so that the boot loader is installed t

Re: portable (non-live) Fedora on an external USB drive

2018-06-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 06/25/2018 07:11 AM, ja wrote: Currently it is not known how the fedora installer determines which boot mechanism to use. What do you mean? If you boot using UEFI, it will install in the EFI partition. If you boot using legacy, it will use the bios boot partition. __

Re: portable (non-live) Fedora on an external USB drive

2018-06-26 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 2:48 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > Not all systems are capable of booting USB devices. It depends on the > age of your BIOS and the hardware. Get into your BIOS' boot selection > section and verify you can, indeed, select USB devices there. It can boot USB devices - that was n

Re: portable (non-live) Fedora on an external USB drive

2018-06-26 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/26/2018 11:43 AM, Go Canes wrote: > Update > > I was able to create a working "portable" USB disk by installing on > the *internal* disk, and then dd'ing it over to the USB disk (and > zero-ing the internal disk to make sure it didn't boot from there). > However, a 2nd older system still

Re: portable (non-live) Fedora on an external USB drive

2018-06-26 Thread Go Canes
Update I was able to create a working "portable" USB disk by installing on the *internal* disk, and then dd'ing it over to the USB disk (and zero-ing the internal disk to make sure it didn't boot from there). However, a 2nd older system still does not see the USB disk as a boot device. I'm th

Re: portable (non-live) Fedora on an external USB drive

2018-06-25 Thread ja
On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 10:04 -0400, Go Canes wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 08:47 -0400, Go Canes wrote: > > > But then > > > when I go to boot the external drive, it immediately displays > > > "Operation System not found" - Note tha

Re: portable (non-live) Fedora on an external USB drive

2018-06-25 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 08:47 -0400, Go Canes wrote: >> But then >> when I go to boot the external drive, it immediately displays >> "Operation System not found" - Note that is is "Operation", *not* >> "Operating". > > That could be a mes

Re: portable (non-live) Fedora on an external USB drive

2018-06-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 08:47 -0400, Go Canes wrote: > But then > when I go to boot the external drive, it immediately displays > "Operation System not found" - Note that is is "Operation", *not* > "Operating". That could be a message from your BIOS, which would imply it's not finding even the first

portable (non-live) Fedora on an external USB drive

2018-06-25 Thread Go Canes
Similar to an earlier thread [portable (really) Fedora on stick], I am trying to create a portable Fedora 27 install on an external USB hard drive. I have done this in the past as recently as Fedora 14, but things have changed since then, and I seem to be hitting some unexpected issues The in