[Discuss] Old computer issues

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

Thanks guys. Certainly DVDs will work. I may even have the fedora version
that I originally installed in his system. I was unable to boot a USB
stick. The reason we kept secure boot on that system is that he said he
might want to keep windows. I currently have his system, so I have more
time to play with it

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On Thu, May 12, 2022, 8:59 PM jbk <jbk at kjkelra.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> <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.
>
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> Jim Kelly-Randjbk at kjkelra.com
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