On 10 Sep 2021 at 0:25, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Date sent: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:25:57 -0400
From: Jon LaBadie <jonfu(a)jgcomp.com>
To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: Failure in gsetting up a UEFI USB
Flash with Fedora 33??
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This may be a totally useless experience from another Dell
computer, but ...
I was running an older Fedora on both a non-Dell desktop
and a Dell Vostro laptop. I decided to do a fresh reinstall
on the laptop. First, used the desktop to create an install
flash drive (F34). Forget if I used mediawriter or dd, but
should not matter.
The flash mounted fine on the desktop. Took it to the
laptop, again mounted fine under the old Fedora. Tried
to boot from the flash and could not see it at all no
matter what bios boot options I tried.
Returned to the desktop and there was no problem booting
from the flash drive. But no success on the laptop until...
I recalled a brief message "Press F12 to ..." So brief I
had to <ctrl><alt><del> several times to get the rest that
said something like "select boot device".
When I next rebooted and pressed F12, it gave a menu that
included USB legacy boot, USB secure boot, and my hard drive.
Maybe the new Dell bios at your client needs something like
that to USB boot.
On my Dell machine, the F12 key does the boot option
menu, and it will show the Legacy options and the UEFI
options if a UEFI flash is installed.
The user has gotten into the bios to boot the G4L from
Dell 3070 machines, but the new Dell 3080 machine don't
have the options available. It is possible that there is
some complex process to enable the options that is
different from the 3070 to the 3080. Don't have any
access to either.
Tried to go to Dell website to ask a Dell Tech, but it
requires a special code off a machine to be able to get to
first step. Asked the user to ask Dell, but haven't heard
back yet.
Had a Dell PowerEdge server like 20 years ago. Went to
install Windows NT 2000 on it. System had 3 SCSI hard
drives in a very fancy 6 bay setup. Booting up from the
windows NT 2000 CD, and it came up with message that
no hard drives found, but I could see the 3 drives sitting
there with all the green lights on and spinning just fine.
Had to do some research, and found the NT CD didn't
include the Perc 3 SCSI controller the Dell was using for
the fancy server. Had to find it on the internet, and put
the driver on a 3 1/2" floopy disk. Then boot from the NT
CD, and press F8 (or other key), to be able to add the
Perc 3 driver and then it saw the drive and install. Later I
but some other disk in machine, and the Fedora CD at
time had no problem seeing the Drives. Wasn't impressed
with the $8,000 Dell server. Had $2,000 generic
machines that were faster, but didn't have the 3 power
supplies or other fancy bells.
In high school in mid 70s, my school had a 1963 IBM
1130 with 4K of Ram, and punch card. No display, but a
teletype console. Removalable 5M hard disk. So come a
long way.
Thanks for the reply.
Have a great day.
--
Jon H. LaBadie jonfu(a)jgcomp.com
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