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Subject: [Discuss] Old computer issues
From: gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 20:27:54 -0400

A Blu member who used to attend installfests has an older PC. We put fedora
on it at the time because ubuntu could not be installed because of secure
boot at the time, and the user wanted to be able to boot into windows.
Fedora was one of the first distros to get a certificate. In any case
fedora now core dumps. In truth, I was time constrained, and did not boot
into single user mode .
Question:
The bios recognizes USB HDD but not USB sticks .  I still have a few DVD-RW
but I would rather use a USB stick. Is there a way to fool the bios to boot
the USB stick

What I really want to do is recover the data. I was able to boot an old
version of fedora that I happened to have in my ancient DVD collection.
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