[PLUG] Old OS on New Machine

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Fri May 7 05:26:09 UTC 2021


On 5/6/21 10:15 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:

>
> It looks like this board might be too old for USB booting. I pulled up 
> the manual and its running a stone age AMI BIOS that doesn't even have 
> a "boot options" section. That explains why he is using plop too.
>
>
> Chances are the bootloader on the usb stick is messed up. Easy to do 
> these days since the MBR of the stick isn't used for EFI booting so 
> you might not even notice that it's messed up on modern systems. If 
> you can, just burn a CD/DVD and use that.

Maybe that will work for my machine, too. I'll have to give it a try. 
I've got a stack of burnable DVDs I haven't used in a long time. Maybe 
tomorrow.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens




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