Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk

[edited and inline]

On 12/17/2011 6:57 AM, g wrote:
On 12/17/2011 08:06 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
[...] took three tries and I don't understand why, but I was
able to get an image onto a USB.
-=-

"I don't understand why" what? that i worked? i is supposed to work. ;)

main thing is that you got image saved.

The "why" was that I don't understand what failed the first two times so I really don't know what I did different the last time ... but as you said, I got the image and that's what matters

-=-

2 possibilities;

1] your bios will not boot usb.
2] 'boot sector' procedure for usb is different from that of cd/dvd.

solutions;

1] upgrade bios.
2] install correct 'boot sector'.

[...]
there are ways to boot usb when not enabled by bios, google search will
show them.

[...]
this is true and why you need to upgrade bios.



George:

I was hoping that you'd tell me I was doing something wrong as I was pretty certain the end result would be deal with the bios so I can boot from USB or alternative from Google (which seems to be pointing me to Plop). I checked HP's bios updates and didn't see any update which talked about "adding USB boot support", so I'm going to try the Plop method -- hopefully I will be able to get the confirm that the USB is good before I reinstall original OS for hardware repair.

Thanks,
Paul

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