I have an older desktop (circa 2010) that I’m trying to repurpose into a small game server and NAS. It doesn’t have UEFI. I’ve tried booting from USB and from DVD. I can get into the BIOS boot menu and select the device to boot from, but after I select it just goes to a blank screen.
I’m using the onboard AMD GPU. This is a fresh hard drive. I’ve tried the boot media on my laptop and it boots fine. I’ve put the old Windows 7 SSD back into the desktop and it boots fine. I’ve tried different images: Fedora Silverblue, Antix x64, Antix 386. Everything is giving the same results.
Can you recommend any other troubleshooting tips?
In your BIOS, ensure that you have compatibility mode enabled for USB devices. Sometimes it’s called legacy mode. If not, your PC could refuse to boot from some devices. Sounds like what’s happening here at least. Usually if this mode is disabled the USB device won’t show, but its worth a shot.
Thank you, I appreciate the help.
My BIOS is old enough that it is legacy :-) It can see the USB device, but for some reason when I try to boot from it the system just hangs with no video output. It sees it as a hard drive, so I have to make it the 1st drive and then I can set the boot priority.
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