[SOLVED] boot fedora 20 from usb

[Tod Merley]

USB drives tend to have firmware in front of what may wish to boot.

What I like to do is use Gparted to make room in the end of the drive (say
move the end of the drive up so that enstead of having a 16gb fat partition
I have a 1 gb fat partition and 15 gb unallocated.  I do not bother the
front of the drive (other than to add the MBR later in the Linux install).

Then treat the Flash drive as a regular drive otherwise during the install
process.

Not all flash drives will allow this.  Simply find one that does.

Currently I am using F20 flash drives to in my laptop and netbook (each
specifically made on and for the specific device) to do all of my on line
banking.  Simply I like the idea of the Flash drive not being exposed to
normal use otherwise.  I do check the security certificate fingerprints.  I
do keep the Linux install updated.


On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Paolo De Michele <paolo at paolodemichele.it>
wrote:

>
> On 26/09/14 23:36, bitlord wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 23:11 +0200, Paolo De Michele wrote:
> >> hi everybody,
> >>
> >> I'm not be able to boot fedora 20 x64 or x32 from usb (I tried fedora
> >> kde live, fedora complete and centos 6.5 minimal)
> >> I used a lot of software like liveusb-creator, unetbootin and the shell
> >> command like dd
> >>
> >> the pendrive is formatted in vfat and the client is a veriton N281G (on
> >> the bios I see that support removable devices)
> > When you are copying complete image to flash drive, you don't need to
> > format it. (useless action, you will overwrite it later)
>
> ok
>
> >>
> >> the shell command is: dd if=/dir/file.iso of=/dev/sdx1 bs=1M
> >> with liveusb-creator and the unetbootin the steps are via gui
> > Not sure for centos images (I think older ones are not compatible to be
> > directly copied to device, and don't know for new ones >=7. But fedora
> > should work fine, and when you do it, you don't copy your image to the
> > partition, but to the device, so of=/dev/sdx1 is wrong, (1,2,3.... ) is
> > a partition number.
> > You need something like this
> > # dd if=<fedora_iso_image> of=/dev/sdx  (where X can be a,b,c,...)
> > Be careful with this method it will overwrite device with data of size
> > of the image ...
> > More info on writing usb images
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB
>
> it works
>
>
> >
> > And always when you download ISO images verify them
> > https://fedoraproject.org/verify
> >> so, where I wrong?
> >> let me know, thanks in advance
> >>
> >> regards
> >
>
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