On 3/23/23 1:25 PM, home user wrote:
While preparing to upgrade to Fedora-37 (planned for mid-April), I noticed that
my emergency tools are seriously out of date. Those are memtest, Fedora live,
and rescue. memtest was dealt with in a thread earlier this month. Now I'm
trying to update my Fedora live USB stick to Fedora-36. I used Fedora Media
Writer to do that. I saw no hint of trouble while using that. But when I try
to boot up from the stick (USB-3, if that matters), I get varying bad results.
Two tries failed to complete the boot. One try appeared to succeed, but I
couldn't launch any applications. The applications I tried were Firefox, a
terminal, and I don't recall the other. The last application launch attempt
locked up the workstation.
This workstation is 10 years old. It uses bios. I've attached a PNG screen
capture of what Files says is on the stick at the top level. I do not have a
cell phone or camera to capture the boot screen when the boot fails.
Main question:
How do I make a Fedora-36 USB live stick that really works?
Secondary question:
I can't find a tool on my workstation to check the stick. Disks,
GSmartControl, and Disk Usage Analyzer don't do that, How can I check the
stick itself? I actually tried 2 sticks for the Fedora Media Writer. They
both failed when trying to boot.
This afternoon (Sun., May 28), I retried Fedora Media Writer and a USB-3.1
stick, this time choosing Fedora-37 Workstation. There were no hints of
trouble. But when I tried to boot from that stick, the boot screen sees the
stick, but booting from it failed. I don't know how to capture the messages
that were displayed.
So I turned to Stan's suggestion in the "/boot problem" thread to try a live
DVD. It sure took a while to burn it. It sure took a while to boot it. But it does
seem to have worked (one test only).
I'm puzzled and troubled that the USB stick method does not work. Could that
have something to do with this being a BIOS rather than a UEFI workstation?
But if that were the case, I would expect the DVD approach to also fail.
Regardless, I'm glad the DVD method does work (though sure is slow). Since the
DVD approach worked, I'm marking this thread SOLVED.
Thank-you.
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