USB boot problem -

[Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA]

On 30/05/12 19:12, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>    I have a new Gigabyte GA-E350N Motherboard set up that I want to
>    install F17 to from a USB flash drive but it refuses to recognize
>    it. I have made what I think are the required changes to boot order
>    but it never seems to "see" the flash drive, always wants to boot
>    from an old fedora drive and just shows grub> with a blinking
>    cursor. I don't know what version is on there.
>
>    The flash drive works in another F16 computer so it appears to be
>    good. I want to just boot and install from the USB spin!
>
>    Does anyone have experience with this board?
>
>    Bob
>
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>
>    box7
>
>
        Curiously an Scientific Linux 6.2 live USB stick did work and
        installed, not exactly what I wanted but it points up some
        problem with the F-17/64 XFCE Spin.

        I will deal with that later, in the mean time I have a good
        working system on the new computer.

        Bob



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