On 5/31/23 2:44 PM, Go Canes wrote:
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 4:05 PM home user
<mattisonw(a)comcast.net> wrote:
> 2. I used Fedora Media Writer to put Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-37-1.7.iso"
on stick_1; no hint of trouble. I tested it in the left USB-3 port; it failed. I tested
it in the right port; it succeeded.
Instead of Media Writer, you could try using dd to write the iso to
the stick - something like "lsblk" to identify the device for the USB
stick and then "sudo dd if=Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-37-1.7.iso
of=/dev/sdX bs=1m" where /dev/sdX is the USB stick. I've always used
dd like this and I have never had a problem booting off of the
resulting USB stick.
Tried this yesterday evening. It failed. It did not like the "bs=1m" at the
end of the command. After looking at the man page, I guessed that you meant
"1M" rather than "1m". Tried again. The copy (dd) apparently worked
(no errors or warnings), but the boot failed.
I did my weekly patches today. Then tried this (with "1M") again a few times.
I got inconsistent results:
* two failures to boot.
* once it booted ok, but attempts to launch Firefox, a terminal, and the system monitor
failed.
* twice it booted ok, but Firefox apparently locked up after a few minutes.
* once it booted ok, and the few applications I tried did work.
Results suggest that the sticks are ok, and the sockets are ok. Something else is bad; I
don't know what.
I'll look more closely at George's post tomorrow.