Hello ! On my personal computer, I am trying to install Windows instead of Fedora 43, but I can’t seem to get it to work. I used to be able to dual-boot easily before, but not since Fedora. I removed Secure Boot, then put it back on. On my USB stick, I used Rufus, then Balena Etcher, then Ventoy, but none of them work. I also set the USB stick as the boot priority. I don’t even see it in the GRUB…
I wondered if the USB stick wasn’t working, but it’s the same one I used to boot Linux and Windows distributions.
I asked lots of AI, watched tutorials on YouTube, but nothing helped.
Do you mean that you have the Windows installer on a USB stick, but you can’t boot into that?
What happens when you set the USB stick as the #1 priority? (You wouldn’t expect to see the USB stick in GRUB, the idea is that you tell the BIOS to boot from the USB device instead of from the installed GRUB.)
Yes, I can’t boot with it on this computer (I was able to boot it on another computer).
When I set my USB key as the priority, it’s supposed to boot automatically, right? Except that’s not the case here, and when I press F10, I have no choice but Fedora 43.
Yes, I would have thought so. So this seems like a BIOS issue.
What is the model of your computer (or motherboard if it’s a self-build)?
To your previous question:
No, because the problem happens before Fedora starts up. The BIOS is failing to boot into your USB stick, and Fedora has no control over this part of it.