Gilboa Davara wrote:
>>> I started by dd-ing the DVD iso onto the single partition
/dev/sdb1
>>> on the stick.
>>> For some reason this did not boot,
>>> so I deleted the partition (with fdisk)
>>> and dd-ed the iso onto /dev/sdb .
>>> Maybe that was my error?
> Just to be clear.
> When I removed /dev/sdb1 (with fdisk) on the USB stick,
> and dd-ed to /dev/sdb exactly as you suggest,
> the laptop did boot and I was able to install on my laptop
> but the resulting system had only half-a-dozen modules installed
> (according to lsmod).
> I'm pretty sure the failure had something to do with grub2.
> I chose the custom layout, incidentally,
> as I wanted to keep Fedora-16 on another partition.
>
I think I know what happened.
Are you sharing boot between F16 and F17 by any chance [1]?
I am.
I chose custom layout, and gave /dev/sda2 as /boot,
without formatting it.
Basically, I hoped that this would allow me to run Fedora-16
(which I kept on a different partition)
as an alternative to Fedora-17.
In fact, when I installed Fedora-17 with netinstall
everything worked fine, and I can boot into F-16 or F-17 or Windows,
as hoped.
What exactly was my error with the USB stick method?
As I mentioned I had the same problem with the DVD iso
and with the KDE Live CD (both transferred to the USB stick).
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