Bug 1274962 - System doesn't boot from live USB
Summary: System doesn't boot from live USB
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firstboot
Version: 23
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Orphan Owner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-24 06:06 UTC by Jatin Kaushal
Modified: 2015-10-26 17:35 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-10-26 17:35:18 UTC
Type: Bug
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2015-10-24 06:06 UTC, Jatin Kaushal
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Description Jatin Kaushal 2015-10-24 06:06:43 UTC
Created attachment 1086053 [details]
This was the file it told me attach

Description of problem:
Whenever I burn a ISO onto a USB, it doesn't boot up. I wait for 5 minutes, and it drops to a command prompt

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
I don't know if this should be the component, so can you also help me identify it? thank you


How reproducible:
Every time I try it! It works in VBox, but not on my actual hardware
hardware is:
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4460S CPU @ 2.90GHz × 4 
Memory: 4.0 GiGs of RAM
Graphics Card: GeForce GT 705/PCIe/SSE2
Arch: x86_64


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Burn an ISO
2. Boot it

Actual results:
I get a command prompts

Expected results:
It should boot up

Additional info:
Here's an attachment it told me to attach

Comment 1 Brian Lane 2015-10-26 17:35:18 UTC
It looks like you used some 3rd party tool that doesn't know how to setup the USB properly for Fedora:

/dev/sdb1: LABEL="USB Stick" UUID="43D1-E2A1" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="0009cb4a-01"

The label is is certainly wrong there.

Your best bet is to use the dd tool to write the iso directly to the USB stick (make sure you don't have anything on it you don't want to lose). Here are the instructions:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/22/html/Installation_Guide/sect-preparing-boot-media.html


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