Yeah, fair enough. I read about ‘Boot Guard’, I’m hoping that’s not the issue here.
Thanks!
Hello Mike, unfortunately I don’t have experience with Boot Guard. Actually I should have noticed that the PC did boot from the flash drive, right?
Then it might be just an issue with it not managing to boot the system there. If so, if it has this DVD drive then it shall work.
Once I was trying to install Linux Mint to a friend in a Dell PC from that era and it wouldn’t boot that particular ISO from the flash drive, so it was installed from the DVD.
Just thinking, the Fedora iso images IIRC use the gpt format that an old motherboard/bios may not know about. I used to have old gigs and all hard drives were formated with the older mbr format. Terms might not be exact, I’m writing using my memory.
If you can boot a ventoy usb stick, then you might add the Fedora ISO to the ventoy menu and then boot from it. Might worth a try. Ventoy uses both formats IIRC. That’s what I would try anyway.
Good luck
The Fedora ISO should support both - it has a GPT partition table but with a “protective MBR” that MBR-only systems can read.
thanks for the precision. much appreciated!
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