Hi everyone,
I have a Surface Go 1 with 128 gb hooked up to a usb-c screen.
I’ve installed Fedora 38 on it and I’m really happy with the whole setup. So much so that I wanted to be able to reproduce it on all my computers.
The problem is I can’t get the machine to boot from a Usb-a with usb-c adaptor or from a usb-c stick.
I’ve tried everything. I can access the uefi settings and disable secure boot and change the boot order. At first I thought it was because I was using an usb-c adapter but buying a usc-c stick didn’t change a thing.
In the past the only way I was able to boot from usb was to break my system, install windows again and go to windows recovery. I don’t want to do that again as I would want to clone my system.
For now, I’ve resorted to cloning my girlfriend’s 2012 MacBook Pro with Fedora on it, but since it’s not my daily driver, it’s not where I’m creating my perfect setup.
If anyone can help me, I’d be really grateful.
Well so just to give an update, while using Ventoy, everything works. It doesn’t matter if you’re using a Usb-A stick with an adapter or a Usb-C.
It’s crazy to think that I’ve looked at so many tutorials and that the solution was so simple.
The surface Go is a lovely little Linux machine, but some stupid things are difficult on it.
have you tried ventoy?
My Surface GO also refuses to boot Linux usb sticks directly (interestingly windows usb sticks are no problem).
What worked for me is creating a ventoy usb stick and then putting the iso on there.
If this does not work you can try to set the boot order from fedora with
efibootmgr. More infosThanks I guess I’ll try that👍
You may not have to do a disk clone to replicate your setup. Have you used Git before?
Configuration for most packages is stored under your home folder in a directory called “.config” (the . at the front makes the folder hidden). Taking this folder and putting it on your other systems should replicate most of your setup. (Some other packages, like bash or zsh, will place configuration information directly under your home folder. Make sure you transfer those files and folders too)
That sounds a bit too complicated for me but I might do that if the ventoy trick doesn’t work. Thanks
If you haven’t already tried a USB 2.0 flash drive, give that a go. I find they are less finicky to boot from than some 3.0 drives.
I’ve tried but only through an adapter as the surface go is usb-c only. It didn’t work…