F20 USB install broken?

[Dan Irwin]

Hi,

I was trying to install Fedora 20 on a Dell Latitute e6530 using a USB
stick. It doesn't work.

Various errors occur. From "USB device will not accept address" during
initial boot, to being dropped to a dracut shell with a similar error, to
"Cannot find a suitable stage1 device" after the installer UI starts and I
try to partition disks.

At the very least, I have had to do the following:

Boot fedora
Switch to a shell
Manually delete partitions using fdisk
Reboot
Still can't get fedora to install using USB
Reboot
Try again
Give up.

Surprisingly, my DVD drive popped opens when rebooting from a USB install.

I have just burnt a F20 ISO, and it seems to be installing on my second
attempt. It has actually recognized the fact I deleted partitions to free
up space, where these didn't seem to be happening on USB installs.

Yep, I probably should have used fedup, but this is how I have installed
new releases of Redhat/Fedora since the 1990s.

Clearly, USB installs of Fedora 20 have issues on modern Dell hardware.

Thanks.

[Richard Vickery]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Irwin" 
To: "Community support for Fedora users" 
Sent: Wednesday, 15 January, 2014 19:16:13
Subject: F20 USB install broken?

Hi,

I was trying to install Fedora 20 on a Dell Latitute e6530 using a USB stick. It doesn't work.

Various errors occur. From "USB device will not accept address" during initial boot, to being dropped to a dracut shell with a similar error, to "Cannot find a suitable stage1 device" after the installer UI starts and I try to partition disks.

At the very least, I have had to do the following:

Boot fedora 
Switch to a shell 
Manually delete partitions using fdisk 
Reboot 
Still can't get fedora to install using USB 
Reboot

Try again 
Give up.

Surprisingly, my DVD drive popped opens when rebooting from a USB install.

I have just burnt a F20 ISO, and it seems to be installing on my second attempt. It has actually recognized the fact I deleted partitions to free up space, where these didn't seem to be happening on USB installs.

Yep, I probably should have used fedup, but this is how I have installed new releases of Redhat/Fedora since the 1990s.

Clearly, USB installs of Fedora 20 have issues on modern Dell hardware.

Thanks.

[Chris Murphy]

On Jan 15, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Dan Irwin  wrote:
> Clearly, USB installs of Fedora 20 have issues on modern Dell hardware.

Without more information it seems doubtful as it's common hardware. It's more likely that this is a bad USB transfer. I've had all sorts of funky weird behavior with bad USB creation, and invariably when I shasum256 the squash.img, it doesn't have the correct hash.

How did you create the USB stick? Did you verify the ISO download? Did you choose the media verification boot option?

Chris Murphy

[Dan Irwin]

Hi Chris,

Yes I did verify the ISO file checksum on download, but I did not do a
media verification.

Some further info, I could only get the installer UI when doing an EFI
boot. Doing a "legacy" boot would not yeild a GUI at all, just a dracut
shell, and complaints about USB devices not accepting addresses.

I just rebooted to the same USB stick, and it PASSed media verification. So
that rules out a corrupt install image.

Cheers,

Dan

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Dan Irwin  wrote:
> > Clearly, USB installs of Fedora 20 have issues on modern Dell hardware.
>
> Without more information it seems doubtful as it's common hardware. It's
> more likely that this is a bad USB transfer. I've had all sorts of funky
> weird behavior with bad USB creation, and invariably when I shasum256 the
> squash.img, it doesn't have the correct hash.
>
> How did you create the USB stick? Did you verify the ISO download? Did you
> choose the media verification boot option?
>
> Chris Murphy
>
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