On 10/13/2016 07:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/13/2016 7:10 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: >>> Mmn, that didn't work. I dd'd the latest Fedora Live iso onto a USB >>> drive, put it into a brand spanking new Dell Latitude E7470, hit F12 >>> at Dell logo and got "Selected boot device failed". Do I need to make >>> it bootable using fdisk or some such? >> Not that I recall - a simple dd of the iso onto a usb stick just works >> see >> https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey > > some USB sticks don't seem to like to be boot devices, and I've never > figured out why. Sandisk stuff generally seems to work, and most all > my current USB sticks are Sandisk Ultra Fit (the really tiny ones, > typically in 16GB or 32GB). > > I've had excellent luck with the 16 GB Mushkin atom - and they are fast too, really fast, I suspect some USB 3 thumb drives are really only USB 2 and there will eventually be a lawsuit. But the Mushkin are really fast.