On 2026-01-28, D. R. Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK... on the basis of the fact that you expected USB boot to work, I just > went > and spent some time messing with the boot options, and found a way to make it > work. What I had not realised was that it was not enough to select "USB-HDD" > from the BIOS list, but I also had to then go and look at the hard drive boot > order, where a new entry had appeared (at a low priority). Once I saw that > and > changed its priority so that it was the preferred boot device, the machine > booted fine from the USB drive. > > All this, I'm sure, is very elementary stuff... but if one has never > encountered it before, as I have not, none of it was obvious.
In fact, that's not my experience with an old and buggy BIOS. There's a preferred boot order; it looks first for a hard disk, then for an optical device, failing that a USB dongle, etc. That order can be altered, which is logical. But whatever works, as the saying goes.
