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12-06-2023 06:54 PM
Created a new Fedora39 live on 8 gig Monster USB thumb drive. No errors burning the ISO to the thumb drive. I used the bios menu and the F9 boot select option on the HP Pavillion and selected the USB drive, but the boot process does not see it, and proceeds to boot from the internal hard drive which proceeds as normal. After boot up from internal HD the Monster USB is visible in the file manager
I put the same Monster USB stick into my Lenovo ThinkCentre desktop and it boots fine. This same scenario occurs with a Cruiser 4 gig thumb drive which also boots fine on the Lenovo desktop.
What am I doing wrong?
12-06-2023 07:04 PM - edited 12-06-2023 07:08 PM
Hi @seechrisgo
Welcome to the HP Forum.
I am not into Linux but you might have a UEFI problem with the HP MB.
When in "F9" do you see the USB stick in both the Legacy boot section and the UEFI boot section? Have you tried both boot options?
Maybe this link to the Fedora Project can help.
Regards
12-06-2023 08:13 PM
Right, should have provided more details- UEFI is disabled on this computer, so when I interrupt the boot with F9 I see the Monster USB stick only in the legacy boot section. I arrow down to it and press enter and the boot continues, but it still doesn't boot from the USB thumb, it continues to the internal HDD. As I mentioned this USB stick does boot on a Lenovo computer so wouldn't seem to be a Fedora issue, although could be something that the Fedora live boot section has that the HP doesn't like.
12-11-2023 01:02 PM
The BIOS on my HP Pavillion P-1421 does not have an option "System Configuration" (there is a "System Information, but no setable options there.) and no way I could find to set the USB 3.0 option as Auto. Only option for USB is ACHI or PMAP and I've tried both to no avail.
Just don't get it -- this computer just refuses to recognize any disk configured with Fedora 39, yet all other computers I've tried boot fine and run, from the Fedora live ISO and then from the HD that it is installed on.