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Solved: Trouble installing Fedora 26 from USB
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| I had tried to install the new Fedora 26 KDE workstation ISO on my Acer laptop the other day. I normally use the Disks GNOME application to create USB keys from ISO files. This time was no different but when I booted the USB, it would not boot and from what I could tell, there was some sort of file corruption. | |
| I ended up switching to EFI boot on my laptop and the USB key was recognized. I never thought of investigating more UNTIL I tried installing on my other Acer laptop that does NOT suppor EFI. I got the same corruption error and when back to GRUB2 that was on the SDD. | |
| Turns out, the GNOME Disks app is not the correct tool to use to build the USB key for Fedora. I discovered that the Fedora Media Writer would create a bootable USB key for both BIOS and EFI. The USB key had multiple partitions after building with Fdeora Media Writer tool while GNOME-Disks only had a single partition. I guess GNOME Disks saw just the EFI partition and that is all. | |
| Seems strange to have to use Fedora Media Writer but I got a USB key I could boot from a BIOS machine. |
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