On 12/24/2023 15:27:10, joe a wrote:
On 12/24/2023 12:41:51, Felix Miata wrote:
joe a composed on 2023-12-24 10:07 (UTC-0500):
If USB is authorized to boot, try either a mobile usb DVD for install (do NOT use a HUB when installing, do it only and always on a physical usb plug of the mainboard.
Sadly, no USB boot seems to be available. Tried the lastest BIOS (2012, a great year! for wine perhaps)
Some BIOS obfuscate USB booting by equating it to HDD booting. You may have been looking in the wrong places. The ASUS BBS key is F8. Try it at the same time as you would DEL to try to get into BIOS setup. That should give you a boot device menu that includes USB and OM, unless BIOS setup has blocked booting either or both, or neither are available.
F8 was the key (sorry, could not resist). Still was not a walk in the park, but it now does boot, albeit from the USB stick.
I see someone at OpenSuse is in the holiday spirit, viewing the installers seasonally oriented opening display.
At this point, I may as well let it run the Memory test for "a while" and seek other amusement.
Thanks for the help.
Attempting to use an Adaptec/Dell Cerc/SATA 1.5/6ch RAID controller. I find it seems to POST and accept configuration efforts, but, once to the point it should boot, the system hangs with a blinking cursor, upper left corner. Suspect some form of BIOS conflict, vaguely thinking of address space conflict for BIOS or RAM. MB could simply be flakey as well I suppose, as it is a bit finicky about accepting the "interrupt keys" such as DEL, F1, F8, CTRL this or that, but always seems to catch the Adaptec CTRL A key, if I act in time. Don't see any setting that appears to address (see? I did id again!) the issue. Really wanted to get a RAID thing going for this iSCSI target, but, looks like other hardware needs to be used. I found some ASUS DURON machines hiding in the corners while collecting for my dump, err, recycle, run. OLD, but very lightly used. So far the ADAPTEC allowed the installed Windows to boot.