[Discuss] linux install on windows 8.1 laptop

[Jerry Feldman]

ok.
On 05/03/2014 09:35 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> Booting from USB drives is now very common but must be enabled in the
>> BIOS, and some older systems do not support that.
> No, Jerry. Built-in card readers aren't USB drives. They're a different
> class of device.
>
> For example, I own four computers (two Lenovo, one Dell, one Acer) with
> built-in card readers. All four are capable of USB boot -- I do it
> frequently to run Clonezilla. None of the them will boot from SD cards.
> SD cards simply don't appear in the boot device lists.
>

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