[Discuss] Fwd: Old computer issues

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A better link:

https://www.instructables.com/Boot-from-usb-on-an-old-pc-without-modding-the-BIO/


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What about this?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.instructables.com/Boot-from-usb-on-an-old-pc-without-modding-the-BIO/%3famp_page=true

On 5/12/22, 8:28 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> 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>
    Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org
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