[CentOS] CentOS on new Dell

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Fri Oct 14 02:39:20 UTC 2016


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).


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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz




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