R. G. Newbury wrote: > > >I've been trying to install Fedora-12 from a memory stick > > >to which I have transferred the KDE Live CD > > >using livecd-iso-to-disk . > If you have a reasonably recent ASUS mb with an AMi BIOS, setting it to > boot from USB is rather obscure. You need to plug in the USB stick and > reboot. The USB device will then show up in the list of hard drives > under Boot Order (going from memory there, but its on the Boot tab, and > the second or third entry, iirc). Move the USB HDD entry to the top of > the list, then save and reboot. Thanks for the suggestion, but it seems my machine is too ancient - about 10 years old, I think. It has an Asus P2B-LS motherboard, with Award BIOS. I have been unable to find anything in the BIOS to allow booting from the USB memory stick. I tried booting again from the KDE Live CD vmlinuz0 and initrd0.img copied to the hard disk, with the USB partition given as root in the kernel line. As far as I can see, the machine does boot from the USB stick, but the boot fails, saying that the check of boot1, which is actually my Fedora-11 /boot partition, has failed. I've run "fsck.ext3 -f" on this partition (after unmounting it), and it seems perfectly OK. It seems to me that something odd happens in this scenario. I don't see why it tries to check this partition anyway - as far as I can see, it should only be looking at the USB stick, so where does it get a list of partitions to check? It seems in fact to be reading the Fedora-11 /etc/fstab , but I don't see why. I tried going into the interactive boot, but this failed (pressing "I" had no effect), and in any case I would not have known what to do. Is there a kernel command to omit fsck checks? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
