Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 11/9/20 4:56 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: BTW for doing a cksum of your burned optical disk, the device is probably /dev/sr0 (maybe /dev/sr1 if you have a pair of optical drives). Whereever you downloaded the .iso from should provide a "shaXXXsum" value. You can run "sha???sum " and "sha???sum

Re: Have I bricked a PC? -- Hooray. -- Partitioning?

2020-11-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/9/20 12:44 PM, Beartooth wrote: On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:07:29 +, I Beartooth wrote: When I told it to reboot, it pulled in the drawer and immediately booted F 32 Live. I told it to install to hard drive -- and got another surprise. This machine has TWO drives, sda with 112 GB,

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 14:29, Beartooth wrote: > If only I could get into the BIOS, I think I'd be home free, or > almost, provided I could also get it to automount media > > https://support.system76.com/articles/boot-menu/; To enter BIOS for desktops (besides the Meerkat), hold down

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 10:54:26AM -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-11-09 10:28, Beartooth wrote: > > > 3) did you go into BIOS and set the DVD drive to be > > > first in the boot order? > > > If only I could get into the BIOS, I think I'd be home free, or > > almost,

Re: Have I bricked a PC? -- Hooray. -- Partitioning?

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
> On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:07:29 +, I Beartooth wrote: [...] > When I told it to reboot, it pulled in the drawer and immediately > booted F 32 Live. I told it to install to hard drive -- and got another > surprise. This machine has TWO drives, sda with 112 GB, and

Re: Have I bricked a PC? -- Surprise!

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:07:29 +, I Beartooth wrote: > I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. > I can't get it to boot from the DVD. [] > This is the machine, discussed here in a thread beginning October > 30, about a transaction test error. The

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-11-09 09:25, Beartooth wrote: On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:57:41 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-08 13:07, Beartooth wrote: I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. I can't get it to boot from the DVD. How to test for a 64 bit CPU: $

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-11-09 10:28, Beartooth wrote: 6) what was the error message? Error message? Error message?? Whence? Do you boot back into the original OS? What is on the screen? Does the initial selection to test the disk or run the disk ever pop up? Is it a black screen with a flashing

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-11-09 10:28, Beartooth wrote: 3) did you go into BIOS and set the DVD drive to be first in the boot order? If only I could get into the BIOS, I think I'd be home free, or almost, provided I could also get it to automount media When I can not figure out what the magic

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 16:24:25 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-11-08 13:07, I Beartooth wrote: >> >> I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. >> I can't get it to boot from the DVD. [...] >> This is the machine, discussed here in a thread

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
On Mon, 09 Nov 2020 11:42:01 -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> On 2020-11-08 13:07, I Beartooth wrote: >>> >>> I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish >>> machine. I can't get it to boot from the DVD. >>> >>> It was originally a System 76, which came with Ubuntu.

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Terry Polzin
Also the last 32 bit release of Fedora seems to be 30. On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 1:08 PM Terry Polzin wrote: > Perhaps the optical drive has failed or lost its connection to the scsi > bus. > > ls -l sr? > or > dmesg | less should tell you if you have a dev/sr0 > > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 12:25

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Terry Polzin
Perhaps the optical drive has failed or lost its connection to the scsi bus. ls -l sr? or dmesg | less should tell you if you have a dev/sr0 On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 12:25 PM Beartooth wrote: > On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:57:41 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > On 2020-11-08 13:07,

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:57:41 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2020-11-08 13:07, Beartooth wrote: >> >> I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. >> I can't get it to boot from the DVD. > How to test for a 64 bit CPU: > > $ lscpu | grep -i bit CPU

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-09 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 11/8/20 8:57 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2020-11-08 13:07, Beartooth wrote: I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. I can't get it to boot from the DVD. It was originally a System 76, which came with Ubuntu. I had to get help to switch it to

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-11-08 13:07, Beartooth wrote: I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. I can't get it to boot from the DVD. It was originally a System 76, which came with Ubuntu. I had to get help to switch it to Fedora, but it's been OK till now. (I've been

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-11-08 13:55, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: Is it a 32bit CPU?? Fedora no longer works on 32bit CPUs. If I am not mistaken, if you try to install 64 bit Fedora on a 32 bit system, you get the finger shaken at you. I will be glad when I don't have to deal with 32 bit system

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2020-11-08 13:07, Beartooth wrote: I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. I can't get it to boot from the DVD. It was originally a System 76, which came with Ubuntu. I had to get help to switch it to Fedora, but it's been OK till now. (I've been

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-08 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
if it will boot from a USB Flash of Fedora?? On 8 Nov 2020 at 13:35, Jack Craig wrote: From: Jack Craig Date sent: Sun, 8 Nov 2020 13:35:43 -0800 Subject:Re: Have I bricked a PC? To: Community support for Fedora users Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users

Re: Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-08 Thread Jack Craig
On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 1:07 PM Beartooth wrote: > > I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. > I can't get it to boot from the DVD. > > It was originally a System 76, which came with Ubuntu. I had to > get help to switch it to Fedora, but it's been OK till

Have I bricked a PC?

2020-11-08 Thread Beartooth
I have a DVD with F 33 Live, in the drawer of an oldish machine. I can't get it to boot from the DVD. It was originally a System 76, which came with Ubuntu. I had to get help to switch it to Fedora, but it's been OK till now. (I've been doing system upgrades with dnf; but that