F23 on PATA or SATA ext. disk?

[Chris Murphy]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Fred Smith
<fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 02:49:27PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> > Chris Murphy composed on 2015-08-06 13:19 (UTC-0600):
>> >
>> >> Adam Williamson wrote:
>> >
>> >>> On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 13:55 -0400, Joerg Lechner wrote:
>> >
> <snip>
>> > IOW, answer to OP is no difference whatsover, except possibly for a
>> > slight speed difference if USB3 rather than USB2 or Firewire.
>>
>> Yeah. And I don't even know if Fedora supports those interfaces for
>> booting. Obviously USB is for install media, because it has to, but
>> for /boot or root fs? I don't think so. There's no test for it anyway.
>
> i've certianly booted many fedora versions from USB,... both USB HD
> and USB flash sticks.  why would you think it might not work?

For the same reason anything might not work. The question raised by
"does Fedora support" means would Fedora block a release if this
didn't work. Yes if it were USB install media. But if for some reason
either installing to or booting from a system installed onto a USB
stick or drive? I don't know. Again there isn't a test case for USB
explicitly.

I'd think it's more of an issue for ARM where USB and SD installations
are probably typical, where on x86 they're rare.

-- 
Chris Murphy