F20 USB install broken?

[Richard Vickery]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Irwin" <rummymobile at gmail.com>
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
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. 

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Dan:

The answer is possibly in the bios. Chance the boot settings to boot up from your stick

HTH,

Richard