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en-US/modules/proc_booting-from-usb-sticks.adoc
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[id='booting_from_USB_sticks']
== Booting from USB sticks
= Booting from USB sticks
Almost all modern PCs can boot from USB sticks. However, how you tell the system to boot from a USB stick varies substantially from system to system. Initially, you can try this:
. Power off the computer.
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If your system has a UEFI firmware, it will usually allow you to boot the stick in UEFI native mode or BIOS compatibility mode. If you boot in UEFI native mode and perform a Fedora installation, you will get a UEFI native Fedora installation. If you boot in BIOS compatibility mode and perform a Fedora installation, you will get a BIOS compatibility mode Fedora installation.
For more information on all this, see the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface[UEFI page]. USB sticks written from `x86_64` images with link:using-fedora-media-writer[Fedora Media Writer], `GNOME Disk Utility`, dd, other dd-style utilities, and link:how-to-create-and-use-a-live-CD[livecd-iso-to-disk] with --efi should be UEFI native bootable. Sticks written with other utilities may not be UEFI native bootable, and sticks written from i686 images will never be UEFI bootable.
For more information on all this, see the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface[UEFI page]. USB sticks written from x86_64 images with link:using-fedora-media-writer[Fedora Media Writer], GNOME Disk Utility, `dd`, other dd-style utilities, and link:proc_creating-and-using-live-cd.html[Creating and using live CD] with the --efi option specified, should be UEFI native bootable. Sticks written with other utilities may not be UEFI native bootable, and sticks written from i686 images will never be UEFI bootable.
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== Identifying a stick on Linux
Most of the writing methods will require you to know the `/dev` name for your USB stick, e.g. `/dev/sdc`, when using them on Linux. You do not need to know this in order to use `Fedora Media Writer`. To find this out:
Most of the writing methods will require you to know the `/dev` name for your USB stick, e.g. `/dev/sdc`, when using them on Linux. You do not need to know this in order to use Fedora Media Writer. To find this out:
. Insert the USB stick into a USB port.
. Open a terminal and run dmesg.
. Open a terminal and run `dmesg`.
. Near the end of the output, you will see something like:
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[NOTE]
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This is the name of the disk you will use. We'll call it `sdX` from now on. If you have connected more than one USB stick to the system, be careful that you identify the correct one, often you will see a manufacturer name or capacity in the output which you can use to make sure you identified the correct stick.
This is the name of the disk you will use. We'll call it `sdX` from now on. If you have connected more than one USB stick to the system, be careful that you identify the correct one, often you will see a manufacturer name or capacity in the output which you can use to make sure you identified the correct stick.
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