On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 1:07 PM Beartooth <bearto...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. > I can't get it to boot from the DVD. > > It was originally a System 76, which came with Ubuntu. I had to > get help to switch it to Fedora, but it's been OK till now. (I've been > doing system upgrades with dnf; but that doesn't work any more. > > The first display on boot says American Megatrends, copyright > 2015. > > This is the machine, discussed here in a thread beginning October > 30, about a transaction test error. The conclusion was that I had > allocated space badly in F 32, and might as well install F 33 from > scratch. That's what I'm trying to do. > > I've been running Fedora since it came out; if I can get this > thing to boot from the live DVD, I ought to be able to install it to the > hard drive. But the boot options are innumerable -- most of them > apparently not connected with the BIOS, if there still is one. > > Is there hope? What info do I need to post?? > my suggestion is enter bios on boot and look for a boot order, see if dvd is before HD. make it boot first dvd, second hard disk. save, exit and try boot from dvd again.. good luck, ... > > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless > Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > 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@lists.fedoraproject.org >
_______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org
