steves1977uk wrote:Old BIOSes can be a PITA to get booting from an USB flash drive. The way round it was to boot PLoP boot manager from a floppy which had USB support built in, then select the USB flash drive and it booted.
You really need to get a more modern PC Martin, it'll make life a lot easier and it'll boot from USB drives easier.
Steve
martin007 wrote:I regularly use LiveUSB Linux and the BIOS is not the problem.
steves1977uk wrote:martin007 wrote:I regularly use LiveUSB Linux and the BIOS is not the problem.
The only reason those work is because they use legacy boot managers like grub. So if you want to run newer OS's then an UEFI BIOS is needed I'm afraid. Hell even my old Dell Inspiron 1545's can boot Sergie Strelec from USB without issue.
Steve
Burgerman wrote:Take a look at the actual files on your memory stick. You will see they are exactly the same as the ones I sent you... And your ISO is not on there!
Rufus REMOVED THEM and put them onto a FAT 32 active bootable memory stick for you. In the same way that you could have done with the files I sent...
UNLESS you are tricking your bios into reading the ISO as a CD or some other workaround. Thats a bios incompatibility fix.
Your mem stick just has these files and folders:
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