[PLUG] Old OS on New Machine

[Michael Barnes]

I think you guys hijacked my thread.

Michael


On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 10:26 PM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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