[Discuss] Old computer issues

[jbk at kjkelra.com (jbk)]

On 5/12/22 20:27, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 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.
> --
> Jerry Feldman<gaf.linux at gmail.com>
>
I have an old t400 and it boots usb sticks as? USB_HDD per 
the boot options. I've been using it as a test bed for 
various distros installed via usb stick. If Secure Boot is 
enabled you will have to use a modern fedora version to boot 
so I would disable it for your purposes. In my bios there is 
a separate USB line item that enables usb support in the 
bios which if disabled will not allow you to boot from any 
usb device.
The t400 is pre UEFI.

-- 
Jim Kelly-Rand
jbk at kjkelra.com