Description of problem: Fedora images used to be bootable from USB which is quite important on such hardware as netbooks (I tried it on Asus EeePC 1001PX), but it seems to be completely broken in the current release. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F15 x86_64 How reproducible: constantly Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download the netinstall image 2. Write it to the USB flash drive (# dd if=Fedora-15-x86_64-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdX) 3. Try to boot the computer from it Actual results: My netbook boots from the local hard drive despite the appropriate BIOS settings, that means, the flash drive with Fedora image on it is not bootable at all. Expected results: Well, obviously it should boot from the flash drive and start the installer. Additional info: I haven't tried it with other images yet, so I'll speak for netinst ISO-s only for now. Before you even mention it, the problem isn't in the hardware -- it boots from this very USB drive perfectly (purposefully tested it now with Arch Linux installation image to eliminate this variant).
Try running isohybrid on the netboot iso before dd'ing it to the USB. My understanding is that someone forgot to do that on the released iso's. As an alternative you can use livecd-iso-to-disk from the livecd-tools package to write iso's to USBs.
(In reply to comment #1) > Try running isohybrid on the netboot iso before dd'ing it to the USB. My > understanding is that someone forgot to do that on the released iso's. > That is most likely the case: running isohybrid actually did it, after it the image boots and runs the installer normally. I think the mantainers should do the same and update the image(s). Thanks for your help!
*** Bug 733160 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Are you sure this is a duplicate? My USB stick boots. I tried running isohybrid on the DVD ISO and I still get the same result.
I just spent an hour pulling my hair out because my USB stick wouldn't boot the netinstall. Are there any plans to update the ISOs? Running isohybird on the image did work, and I was able to install my system. Here is the hash of the newly updated .iso. 54935ff607ecb94b0859e4cd811ca13dc39b600e7573977f04f08ed8fb3cbf96 Fedora-15-x86_64-netinst.iso
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After a lot of searching for a way to create bootable USB's from installation CD/DVD images, I was delighted to find that the dd command mentioned in the Bug description section created a working USB of Fedora-18-i386-netinst.iso. I have also found that I can boot from Fedora-18-i386-DVD.iso and create a bootable USB that can be moved from one computer to another. Hence, a person with access to a number of borrowable computers can boot his own Fedora system on each one without having to install Fedora on each one. (So far, I've only tried the Minimal Install 386. If I run into problems when installing other package groups or architectures, I'll post a fresh bug report.)