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I've been using the USB's drive, which is D. Have a suggestion as to what else I should use?

It's not D unless you are booted into Windows and it assigns it to D.  That is a completely arbitrary file naming structure that is windows-specific and doesn't apply in the BIOS

My suggestion is to find how the BIOS refers to different devices and use that

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Hi, I have a laptop pre-loaded with Windows 8. I want to switch over to Linux-based Fedora (for obvious reasons) and have made it through most of the installation, but am currently stuck. I've used a 2GB thumbdrive for a liveboot and that works just fine. Problem is, my laptop's BIOS is stupid, and it won't auto detect the drive as a bootable. Instead, it wants me to manually type in the filepath, but I don't know what to set it to. Here are some screenshots of the different files.

 

NOTE 1: The BIOS told me to use (drive):\path\file.efi as the boot, but the .efi highlighted in the second screenshot below didn't work.

NOTE 2: I am performing the install on a clean laptop (as in empty drive apart from Win8, so I'm not afraid to lose any files. Thumb drive was empty too, just FYI).

Laptop model is ASUS Q200e if that helps any.

 

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So wait, is the live USB not booting, or is the installation you did to your actual drive not booting?

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So wait, is the live USB not booting, or is the installation you did to your actual drive not booting?

It's that my BIOS wants me to manually put in the boot path for the USB, and I don't know what that is. It won't default it when I restart my computer. It just keeps booting to Windows 8. Haven't installed it on my actual drive yet.

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Funny. I am actually literally wearing a Fedora as I work on this. Not joking.

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It's that my BIOS wants me to manually put in the boot path for the USB, and I don't know what that is. It won't default it when I restart my computer. It just keeps booting to Windows 8. Haven't installed it on my actual drive yet.

 

you should pick the USB as a boot device during the BIOS stage since it probably won't default to anything other than the internal drive.

 

Once/if that is working, it should just boot it.  If you are able to successfully steer it to the USB device but it then won't boot it, then it was not created correctly

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you should pick the USB as a boot device during the BIOS stage since it probably won't default to anything other than the internal drive.

 

Once/if that is working, it should just boot it.  If you are able to successfully steer it to the USB device but it then won't boot it, then it was not created correctly

You don't understand. It will not let me pick it as a boot device in the BIOS stage. It wants me to manually type in the path to the .efi file ON the USB, but I don't know where that is.

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I've also tried it with CSM on and off. It won't work either way.

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You don't understand. It will not let me pick it as a boot device in the BIOS stage. It wants me to manually type in the path to the .efi file ON the USB, but I don't know where that is.

ohh... ok.

 

Well, in that case, there is probably a manual somewhere for that BIOS that gives a table of codes for what "path" means which device.  Because it's not going to have a familiar path like D:\ or /media/device until you're booted into an actual OS.

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ohh... ok.

 

Well, in that case, there is probably a manual somewhere for that BIOS that gives a table of codes for what "path" means which device.  Because it's not going to have a familiar path like D:\ or /media/device until you're booted into an actual OS.

I've been using the USB's drive, which is D. Have a suggestion as to what else I should use?

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I've been using the USB's drive, which is D. Have a suggestion as to what else I should use?

It's not D unless you are booted into Windows and it assigns it to D.  That is a completely arbitrary file naming structure that is windows-specific and doesn't apply in the BIOS

My suggestion is to find how the BIOS refers to different devices and use that

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It's not D unless you are booted into Windows and it assigns it to D.  That is a completely arbitrary file naming structure that is windows-specific and doesn't apply in the BIOS

My suggestion is to find how the BIOS refers to different devices and use that

Alright. I'll look up the BIOS version but it didn't come in a manual that came with the laptop. Thanks for your help!

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Oh hey! I got it! Turns out I was using the wrong drive after all. Switched to the actual USB according to the BIOS and all is well. Thanks @Ryan_Vickers, as well as @pdustin101 and @Whorax for the laughs! M'techies.

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Oh hey! I got it! Turns out I was using the wrong drive after all. Switched to the actual USB according to the BIOS and all is well. Thanks @Ryan_Vickers, as well as @pdustin101 and @Whorax for the laughs! M'techies.

  :lol:  good to hear!  Glad it's working.

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